Open AccessDynamics beetween 'old' and 'new' ethnicities and multiple identities in Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo
Author(s) -
Branka Kalogjera
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.40.1-2.109-115
Subject(s) - epic , postmodernism , ethnic group , dynamics (music) , identity (music) , literature , art , sociology , anthropology , history , gender studies , aesthetics , pedagogy
The paper takes Candra Cisneros' epic semi-biographical novel Caramelo asa literary insight into dynamics between generations within a single ethnic (Chicano) community, and compares it against classics of the genre in its shifting definition of one's ethnic identity; here the postmodern approach of entwining fiction and fact and awarding them equallegitimacy mirrors the possibility of embracing multiple identities, as exemplified by the novel's protagonist.