Woman hollering creek

Woman Hollering Creek

Woman Hollering Creek is a creek located in Central Texas. At one point, it crosses Interstate 10. between Seguin, Texas and San Antonio, Texas. Early 1900 maps of San Antonio, Texas lists this creek as being called "Nigger Hollow." Later being changed to "Woman Hollering Creek." The creek's name is probably a loose translation of the Spanish La Llorona . or "The weeping woman". According to legend, a woman who has recently given birth drowns her newborn in the river because the father of the child either does not want it, or leaves with a different woman. The woman then screams in anguish from drowning her child. After her death, her spirit then haunts the location of the drowning and wails in misery. The legend has many different variations and there have even been occasional sightings of the restless woman's spirit. The legend also states that if you get too close to the water, the hollering woman will drag you in, hoping you are her child.

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by San Antonio - based Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. The collection reflects Cisneros's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familially bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border.

These tales focus on the social role of women, and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives. The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while women are naive and generally weak. Cisneros focuses on three feminine cliches: the passive virgin, sinful seductress, and traitorous mother. [ 1 ] Not properly belonging to either Mexico or America, the Chicana protagonists earnestly search for their identity, only to discover abuse and shattered dreams. Apart from focusing on these issues of struggling females, Cisneros simultaneously develops the readers' sensitivity towards the lives of immigrants.

The vignettes are quite short on average; the longest is 29 pages, while the shortest is fewer than five paragraphs. Despite such limited space, Cisneros experiments with daring poetic prose in her storytelling; for example, each story presents a new character with a distinct literary voice and style. Such writing has earned her the title of an accomplished Chicana poet, with the added credentials of her published books of poetry My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987) and Loose Woman (1994). [ 2 ]

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"Woman Hollering Creek" was first published in Sandra Cisneros's 1991 collection of short stones, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Like her novel, The House on Mango Street, published in 1983, which describes the lives of Mexican immigrants in a Chicago neighborhood, "Woman Hollering Creek" describes the lives of Mexicans who have crossed the border to live on "el otro lado"- the other side-in the American Southwest. Critically acclaimed as a major voice in Chicana and feminist literature, Cisneros has won numerous awards and has established herself as an important voice in the American literary mainstream as well. Cisneros's work is widely anthologized, and her novel, short stories, and poetry are part of many high school and college literature classes,

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I tried, I so tried to get involved with each dragged out boring story. I had hoped that "Okay so I hated the last story, perhaps the next one will be better. Read more

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