Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros
Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros
Author(s): Dianne Klein
Source: The English Journal, Vol. 81, No. 5 (Sep., 1992), pp. 21-26
Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
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Coming by Rudolfo
of
Age in
Anaya
Novels and Sandra
Cisneros
Dianne Klein
At birth, each person begins a search to know the world and others, to answer the age-old question,
"Who am I?"This search for knowledge, for truth, and for personal identity is written about in autobiographies and in bildungsroman fiction. For years, though, the canon of United States literature has included predominantly the coming-of-age stories of white, heterosexual males. Where are the stories of the others-the women, the African Americans, the Asian Americans, the Hispanics, the gay males and lesbians? What differences and similarities would we find in their bildungsromans? Many writers, silenced before, are now finding the strengths, the voices, and the market for publication to tell their stories.
Chicano/a writers, like African Americans,
Asian Americans, and others, are being heard; in autobiography and in fiction, they are tell-
Author(s): Dianne Klein
Source: The English Journal, Vol. 81, No. 5 (Sep., 1992), pp. 21-26
Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
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Coming by Rudolfo
of
Age in
Anaya
Novels and Sandra
Cisneros
Dianne Klein
At birth, each person begins a search to know the world and others, to answer the age-old question,
"Who am I?"This search for knowledge, for truth, and for personal identity is written about in autobiographies and in bildungsroman fiction. For years, though, the canon of United States literature has included predominantly the coming-of-age stories of white, heterosexual males. Where are the stories of the others-the women, the African Americans, the Asian Americans, the Hispanics, the gay males and lesbians? What differences and similarities would we find in their bildungsromans? Many writers, silenced before, are now finding the strengths, the voices, and the market for publication to tell their stories.
Chicano/a writers, like African Americans,
Asian Americans, and others, are being heard; in autobiography and in fiction, they are tell-
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