Identity And Liminality In Sandra Cisneros And Reyna Grande's Work

In my senior thesis, “An Identity Journey of My Own: Transnationalism, Identity Journeys and Liminality in Sandra Cisneros and Reyna Grande’s Work”, I survey Cisneros’ memoir A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (2015) and novel Caramelo (2002). Additionally, I engaged Cisneros work into a comparison dialogue with Grande’s The Distance Between Us: A Memoir (2013) along with her fictional texts Across a Hundred Mountains (2006). As indicated by the title, through an interdisciplinary approach this project explores a scarcely studied facet of Latina writers in the traditional Hispanic Languages and Literature. Through the bridging anthropology theories of identity formation with literature, I challenged the lineal approach usually adopted when analyzing literature. When there is a growing number on transnational literature scarcely research focus on the liminal identities whose experiences are not encapsulated by …show more content…
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