Select a fact about one of the authors this week that you found most interesting

Part I: Select a fact about one of the authors this week that you found most interesting and tell us why.
I picked up Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories written by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros.  She is a powerful source of Mexican   cultural identity while being surrounded by American influences al around her. Her powerful presentation of the social role played by the Mexican  women ,their relationship with men and with other women is especially intriguing.  The stereotyping of the woman as generally being weak frail and naive heightens the interest on her short stories .  The author uses three kids of stereotypes on women the passive virgin, sinful seductress, and traitorous mother.

Part II: If you had to choose only one aspect of who you are that is predominant in your identity, what would it be? Why? With that in mind, what character could you best relate to this week?
I would prefer to play the role of Clemencia as the Chicana protagonist of the story "Never Marry a Mexican". Instead of acting weak and feeling sorrowful that a white man rejected her she plans her revenge  on the white man by seducing his son and making him pay for his father’s wile ways .
In all the stores by the author, though the women were stereotyped as being weak and frail, the author portrays her feminine characters to be very strong after going through trauma and rejection.
This is the greatest turnaround that could happen to wronged women and more importantly to women  who are weak and their assuming such power is remarkably  great .( (Lee)
Part III: Select one of the works this week. Discuss how one of the characters defines him or herself. Take a look at another character in the same work. Does that character perceive that person the same way? How do their definitions differ? For instance, you may discuss how Mother defines herself and how her husband sees her. Be sure to support your response with cited evidence from the text.
Looking at Clemencia as evolving  herself into a very powerful and self willed woman out to seek revenge on a white man is  the definition  of the new generation Mexican woman “doomed to exist within a racial and class-cultural wasteland, unanchored by a sense of ever belonging either to their ethnic or their natal homeland".( Stoneham)
The protagonist in Clemencia is viewed  as a very bad person as she  indulges herself  with the son of the man who wronged her.  The conflicting love relationship which she enacts with the son has not been taken up very well.” Women who establish identities for themselves, but also develop an independent, confident, even exultant sexuality". Not only this, but they learn to "love men as they wish, and to establish sisterhood, mutually supportive relationships with other women.”
Her mother La Malinche‘s advices to her to never marry a Mexican falls on deaf ears. Her mother has been discriminated against because of her dark skin. La Maniche’s husband looks at her like a sexual toy and discards her for  a woman of greater wealth. Seeing all this through personal experience, La Maniche advises her daughter.

References:
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek, And Other Stories. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1991. Print.
Lee, A Robert. ''Woman Hollering Creek'and Other Stories-Cisneros, S'. American Book Review 14.3 (1992): 22--22. Print.
Stoneham, Geraldine (2003), "U.S. and US: American Literatures of Immigration and Assimilation", in Madsen, Deborah L., Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory, London: Pluto, pp. 238–244, ISBN 978-0-7453-2045-8.