@article{article_328466, title={(Re)Imagining Home Across Borders: The Construction of Selfhood in Sandra Cisneros’s “Women Hollering Creek”}, journal={Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies}, volume={27}, pages={1–26}, year={2017}, DOI={10.26557/iulitera.328466}, author={Yay, İrfan Cenk}, keywords={Sandra Cisneros,“Woman Hollering Creek”,sınır çalışmaları,fotoroman,pembe-dizi}, abstract={<p>Since the 1980s, the literary and theoretical output of American women writers of </p> <p>Latin-American heritage has offered an alternative reading of feminist literary tradition. </p> <p>Sandra Cisneros is probably one of the foremost figures within the American context </p> <p>of “Border Literature” and “Borders Studies” proper. This article firstly outlines the </p> <p>parameters, theorems and prominent figures of Border Studies, and then examines </p> <p>Cisneros’ short story “Woman Hollering Creek” which deconstructs the dualistic </p> <p>mode of thinking in terms of first world vs. third world dichotomy, and defies various </p> <p>thematic and structural borders. The story is also a parody of the Mexican popular </p> <p>genres of telenovella (soap opera) and fotonovella (photo novel), and offers a new </p> <p>form of identity formation through the female protagonist’s quest for finding her own </p> <p>voice and subjectivity outside the prescribed gender roles attuned to the patriarchal </p> <p>discourse proposed in the aforementioned popular genres. Hence, this article offers a </p> <p>close reading of the story’s narrative strategies on a linguistic and semantic level as they </p> <p>inform its thematic concerns. </p>}, number={2}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}