Ay Tu – Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros

List of IllustrationsPreface. ¡Ay Tú! ¡Sí Yo! Nosotrxs: The Sinvergüenza CollectiveIntroduction. Her Fabulous Career: Sandra Cisneros’s Life/Work (Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano)Part I. ¡Ay, Qué Rico! Close Readings1. Lingering with Complicity in Caramelo (Mary Pat Brady)2. The Racial City: Navigating Chicago’s Racialized Space in The House on Mango Street (Olga L. Herrera)3. Telenovela Feeling in Sandra Cisneros’s Loose Woman: “I Think of Me to Gluttony” (Adriana Estill)4. “You Were Telling Cochinadas”: Performative Metaphors for Storytelling in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo (Shanna M. Salinas)5. Mapping the Decolonial: Community Cartography in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek (Teresa Hernández)Part II. Love, Shame, and Sinvergüenzas6. “Love the Only Way I Know How”: Cultivating Erotic Conocimiento in the Work of Sandra Cisneros (Belinda Linn Rincón)7. From Marginal to Sin Vergüenza: Overcoming School-Inflicted Shame through Transgressive Literary Aesthetics in Sandra Cisneros’s Life and Writing (Georgina Guzmán)8. The Loose Woman and the Men of Ill Repute (Richard T. Rodríguez)9. Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues: Locating the Collaborative Origins of Sandra Cisneros’s and Joy Harjo’s Poetic Voices (Audrey Goodman)10. “Hay Que Inventarnos / We Must Invent Ourselves”: The Impact of Norma Alarcón and Sandra Cisneros’s Friendship on Chicana Feminist Literature (Sara A. Ramírez)11. Faxes, Friendship, and the Rise of Chicana Literature: Examining the Archive of Letters between Sandra Cisneros and Helena María Viramontes (Linda Margarita Greenberg)Part III. ¡Adelante! Seeing and Listening with Cisneros12. La Sandra como Artista: The Visual Cisneros (Tey Marianna Nunn)13. Sin Vergüenza: A Plática with Sandra Cisneros (Macarena Hernández)AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex