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Sandra Cisneros is an award-winning author. She attended graduate school for poetry at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, finishing her M.F.A. in 1978. In her free time during the workshop, she started writing what would become “The House on Mango Street. After six years of writing and revising, it was published in 1984. It has since sold more than 6 million copies and is read in many middle schools, high schools and universities. She has also written several poetry collections, novels and children’s books. Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her dogs and among palm trees.
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Vanessa Hua February 4, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 7:06 pm
The whirlwind of the past year brought a national reckoning on race and massive protests against police brutality, followed by the electoral victories of Kamala Harris, the first Black vice president, and Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator. Last month, Black poet Amanda Gorman dazzled us on Inauguration Day with “The Hill We Climb,” her stirring work about these turbulent times.
She’ll follow up that performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday. As Black History Month begins this week, I spoke with several Bay Area authors who recommended their favorite books.
Faith Adiele is a professor at California College of the Arts. Photo: Courtesy Faith Adiele
An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).