Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek

Publication year
1997
Pages
85-96
Comment

Griffin gives an account of the noxious effects of telenovelas and romances based on the work of Ann Barr Snitow ("Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different"), Janice Radway (Reading the Romance), and works of fiction by Sandra Cisneros, in particular

Cisneros' [...] 'Woman Hollering Creek,'  the story in which she most clearly illustrates the negative effects of popular romance genres' portrayal of women, and [...] the story in which she begins to illustrate how women can resist the romance narrative. (87)