The television novel fantasy that she has grown up believing in. In 'Woman Hollering Creek,' a collection of stories that is like a series of first-person monologues, Cisneros proves. With a language that is at once lyrical and sharp, she gives voice to the dispossessed Mexican and Chicano women and children who suffer on either side of both lines. Matthew Gilbert writes in the work entitled: 'Cisneros Gives Voice to the Dispossessed' that Cisneros 'is the impassioned bard of the Mexican border, as well as the border between humiliation and rage. CISNEROS: PROVIDING a VOICE to the DISPOSSESSED If she made her first passage across the Rio Grande in thrall to romantic dreams, she frees herself from this ethos of feminine submission in her passage back.'(Doyle, 1996) Through successive dislocations.relocates herself and her posterity, leaving behind a dusty town 'built so that you have to depend on husbands' and experiences a self-reclamation 'in the fluid liminal space of this 'trickle of water' with its 'curious name' this 'muddy puddle' growing in strength to become a musical torrent.

Ultimately, Cleofilas flees her husband to return to her father and having returned home it is related by Doyle that Cleofilas '.overcomes the tradition of silence.' Doyle additionally states that Cleofilas: According to Doyle, 'Woman Hollering Creek' charts 'psychological, linguistic and spiritual border crossings.' (1996) the work of Candelaria (1986) posits that the meanings held within the story of Hollering Woman Creek have survived due to the multiple meanings and cultural resonance.

This divide of cultures, religion and gender are a type of 'borderlands' as defined in the work of Gloria Anzaldua and these borderlands exist not only geographically but in physic realms as well.

Cisneros seems to project her own life into the character of Cleofilas as Cisneros herself is stated by Doyle (1996) to have entered into a discussion of the difficulties that she herself had known as a Mexican-American '.always straddling the two countries.but not belong to either ying to define some middle ground.' (Pillar, 1990 as cited in Doyle, 1996)

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