The idea that one must conform within one culture presents the disenfranchisement of a bordering individual, limiting them to adequately identify themselves as a whole. The Alamo represents the clashing and complimenting of American and Mexican cultures, constituting identity as flexible and more fluid. Examining the intersection of the differing cultures, and the difficulties faced when trying to navigate or negotiate their border identity. It presents a struggle that at once questions, alters, and submits to multiple societal and cultural connotations and ideologies.
The short prose of “Remember The Alamo” consists of a male narrator identified as Rudy, as his exposition continues, we are introduced to another male character known as Tristàn. …show more content…
In “A Silence between Us like a Language: The Untranslatability of Experience in Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek “, Mullen describes the use of Spanish as an insight of the individual character’s true, conscious thoughts without the limitation of cultural incrimination. “Like a joke or a Freudian slip of the tongue that reveals some unconscious truth, the linguistic "errors" of a character expose the repressed cultural conflict of the bilingual speaker” (Mullen, 5), adding a more concise view of the culturally inclusive mind. Enabling the reader to understand the disposition of each character, and the conflicting stigmas faced with personal identity and cultural …show more content…
Placed between the stories ‘La Fabulosa: A Texas Operatta’ and ‘Never Marry A Mexican’, both of which strictly identify the roles of women in relation to men within Mexican culture. Endorsing the dependent relationship women should have with men and the role of a chaste woman and wife. Cisneros’s placement of ‘Remember The Alamo’ creates a stark contrast between the traditional heterosexual, masculine man and an outcast of Mexican society to which is identified as a feminine male. As both the American and Mexican culture are more intertwined in more urban and metropolitan areas, the adherence of past societal roles has been disordered, ultimately aiding to the blurring of gender roles and traditional relationships between the opposite
The short prose of “Remember The Alamo” consists of a male narrator identified as Rudy, as his exposition continues, we are introduced to another male character known as Tristàn. …show more content…
In “A Silence between Us like a Language: The Untranslatability of Experience in Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek “, Mullen describes the use of Spanish as an insight of the individual character’s true, conscious thoughts without the limitation of cultural incrimination. “Like a joke or a Freudian slip of the tongue that reveals some unconscious truth, the linguistic "errors" of a character expose the repressed cultural conflict of the bilingual speaker” (Mullen, 5), adding a more concise view of the culturally inclusive mind. Enabling the reader to understand the disposition of each character, and the conflicting stigmas faced with personal identity and cultural …show more content…
Placed between the stories ‘La Fabulosa: A Texas Operatta’ and ‘Never Marry A Mexican’, both of which strictly identify the roles of women in relation to men within Mexican culture. Endorsing the dependent relationship women should have with men and the role of a chaste woman and wife. Cisneros’s placement of ‘Remember The Alamo’ creates a stark contrast between the traditional heterosexual, masculine man and an outcast of Mexican society to which is identified as a feminine male. As both the American and Mexican culture are more intertwined in more urban and metropolitan areas, the adherence of past societal roles has been disordered, ultimately aiding to the blurring of gender roles and traditional relationships between the opposite