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    ¡Ay Tú!

    Sonia Saldívar-Hull (Edited by), Geneva M. Gano (Edited by)

    9781477329894, University of Texas Press

    Hardback, published 22 October 2024

    240 pages, 11 b&w illus.
    25.4 x 17.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg

    ¡Ay TÚ! brings together a stellar ensemble of Latina/x and Chicana/x literary scholars and essays devoted to the writing of Sandra Cisneros, one of the most prolific writers of our time. This tremendous collection is a gift to every professor and student of literature and cultural studies.
    - Deborah R. Vargas, Yale University, author of Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda
    ¡Brava! The coeditors of ¡Ay TÚ! have gathered a wealth of scholarly perspectives that students, scholars, and general readers are sure to find illuminating. Insightful and thought-provoking, every chapter opens a door into Cisneros’s familiar and well-loved literary works. Whether you are new to Cisneros or have read and reread favorites, you are sure to find new insights and approaches to her work in this magnificent collection.
    - Norma E. Cantú, Trinity University, coeditor of ¡Somos Tejanas! Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
    Literary scholars celebrate the life, work, and activism of Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros in these astute essays...[The book makes] excellent use of Cisneros’s archives...[and] sheds light on the author’s formative years...It’s a fitting tribute to a beloved author.
    (Publishers Weekly)
    A tremendous gathering of voices acclaiming Cisneros’ influence.
    (Kirkus)
    This important collection examines the life, work, and cultural influence of a major American author, the feminist Chicana poet, fiction writer, and memoirist Sandra Cisneros...and ends with an excellent interview with its subject.
    (CHOICE)

    A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

    Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954), author of the acclaimed novel The House on Mango Street and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and the PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, was the first Chicana to be published by a major publishing house. ¡Ay TÚ! is the first book to offer a comprehensive, critical examination of her life and work as a whole. Edited by scholars Sonia SaldÍvar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano, this volume addresses themes that pervade Cisneros’s oeuvre, like romantic and erotic love, female friendship, sexual abuse and harassment, the exoticization of the racial and ethnic “other,” and the role of visual arts in the lives of everyday people. Essays draw extensively on the newly opened Cisneros Papers, housed in the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, and the volume concludes with a new long-form interview with Cisneros by the award-winning journalist Macarena HernÁndez.

    As these essays reveal, Cisneros’s success in the literary field was integrally connected to the emergent Chicana feminist movement and the rapidly expanding Chicanx literary field of the late twentieth century. This collection shows that Cisneros didn’t achieve her groundbreaking successes in isolation and situates her as a vital Chicana feminist writer and artist.

    • List of Illustrations
    • Preface. ¡
      Ay TÚ
      ! ¡
      SÍ
      Yo! Nosotrxs: The SinvergÜ
      enza Collective
    • Introduction. Her Fabulous Career: Sandra Cisneros’
      s Life/Work (Sonia SaldÍ
      var-Hull and Geneva M. Gano)
    • Part I. ¡
      Ay, QuÉ
      Rico! Close Readings
      • 1. Lingering with Complicity in Caramelo (Mary Pat Brady)
      • 2. The Racial City: Navigating Chicago’
        s Racialized Space in The House on Mango Street (Olga L. Herrera)
      • 3. Telenovela Feeling in Sandra Cisneros’
        s Loose Woman: “
        I Think of Me to Gluttony”
        (Adriana Estill)
      • 4. “
        You Were Telling Cochinadas”
        : Performative Metaphors for Storytelling in Sandra Cisneros’
        s Caramelo (Shanna M. Salinas)
      • 5. Mapping the Decolonial: Community Cartography in Sandra Cisneros’
        s Woman Hollering Creek (Teresa HernÁ
        ndez)
    • Part II. Love, Shame, and SinvergÜ
      enzas
      • 6. “
        Love the Only Way I Know How”
        : Cultivating Erotic Conocimiento in the Work of Sandra Cisneros (Belinda Linn RincÓ
        n)
      • 7. From Marginal to Sin VergÜ
        enza: Overcoming School-Inflicted Shame through Transgressive Literary Aesthetics in Sandra Cisneros’
        s Life and Writing (Georgina GuzmÁ
        n)
      • 8. The Loose Woman and the Men of Ill Repute (Richard T. RodrÍ
        guez)
      • 9. Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues: Locating the Collaborative Origins of Sandra Cisneros’
        s and Joy Harjo’
        s Poetic Voices (Audrey Goodman)
      • 10. “
        Hay Que Inventarnos / We Must Invent Ourselves”
        : The Impact of Norma AlarcÓ
        n and Sandra Cisneros’
        s Friendship on Chicana Feminist Literature (Sara A. RamÍ
        rez)
      • 11. Faxes, Friendship, and the Rise of Chicana Literature: Examining the Archive of Letters between Sandra Cisneros and Helena MarÍ
        a Viramontes (Linda Margarita Greenberg)
    • Part III. ¡
      Adelante! Seeing and Listening with Cisneros
      • 12. La Sandra como Artista: The Visual Cisneros (Tey Marianna Nunn)
      • 13. Sin VergÜ
        enza: A PlÁ
        tica with Sandra Cisneros (Macarena HernÁ
        ndez)
    • Acknowledgments
    • Contributors
    • Index

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