¡Ay Tú!

Sonia SaldÍvar-Hull is a professor emerita of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Feminism on the Border: Chicana Literature and Politics. Geneva M. Gano is a professor of English at Texas State University and the author of The Little Art Colony and US Modernism.

¡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)

• List of Illustrations Preface. ¡Ay TÚ! ¡SÍ Yo! Nosotrxs: The SinvergÜenza Collective Introduction. Her Fabulous Career: Sandra Cisneros’s Life/Work (Sonia SaldÍvar-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 HernÁndez) Part II. Love, Shame, and SinvergÜenzas 6. “Love the Only Way I Know How”: Cultivating Erotic Conocimiento in the Work of Sandra Cisneros (Belinda Linn RincÓn) 7. From Marginal to Sin VergÜenza: Overcoming School-Inflicted Shame through Transgressive Literary Aesthetics in Sandra Cisneros’s Life and Writing (Georgina GuzmÁn) 8. The Loose Woman and the Men of Ill Repute (Richard T. RodrÍguez) 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 AlarcÓn and Sandra Cisneros’s Friendship on Chicana Feminist Literature (Sara A. RamÍrez) 11. Faxes, Friendship, and the Rise of Chicana Literature: Examining the Archive of Letters between Sandra Cisneros and Helena MarÍa 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 VergÜenza: A PlÁtica with Sandra Cisneros (Macarena HernÁndez) Acknowledgments Contributors Index