Ethnic and feminist homecoming in "Eyes of Zapata" by Sandra Cisneros

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Ethnic and feminist homecoming in "Eyes of Zapata" by Sandra Cisneros

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title:	Ethnic and feminist homecoming in "Eyes of Zapata" by Sandra Cisneros
author:	Gondor-Wiercioch Agnieszka
journal title:	Kultura Popularna
issue:	4 (58)
date of publication :	2018
pages:	58-66
ISSN:	1644-8340
eISSN:	2391-6788
DOI:	10.5604/01.3001.0012.8080
URL:	https://kulturapopularna-online.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=183662&language=en
date accessed:	2019-02-28
notes:	Bibliogr. s. 65-66. Na stronie www. czasopisma błędna inf o stronach (40-49)
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	In her short story published in 1991 collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros addresses the issue of reconstructing ethnic counter- history through feminist perspective of the main protagonist and narrator Inés Alfaro. This female character gradually moves from the margins of history into its center when it takes control of the powerful figure of her husband, historical Emiliano Zapata, who in Cisneros's re-writing of history is not a powerful leader of the well-known revolution, but a merciless macho with many lovers and children he pays no attention to. The story is a first-person account of Inés who becomes a powerful witch (la bruja) in order to avenge the injustice of the patriarchal culture. I want to prove that Cisneros wisely complicates the ethnic story of looking for one’s history and identity proving that literary homecoming of Chicanas is far from reaching idealized Aztlán, but it is a feminist quest for the autonomy, not only visible on the level of content, but the form as well, which to some extent is a homage to oral tradition and to famous Mexican woman writers Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro and Juan Rulfo.
keywords in English:	contemporary Latina fiction, herstory, transculturation, Mexican literary heritage
number of pulisher's sheets:	0,75
affiliation:	Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper