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“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros Excerpted from The House on Mango Street In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.
Latino All Stars- Gender:Female
- University:Loyola University of Chicago
- University:University of Iowa
- Undergraduate Degree:English
- State:Illinois
- Position Title:Author
Ms. Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois, one of seven children—and the only daughter—in a Mexican American family. Her mother’s family had emigrated from Mexico a few generations prior. Her father was a native-born Mexican, whose homesickness had led to her family’s frequent moves, back and forth between Chicago and Mexico City.
She recalls being unable to maintain long-term friendships and seeing her grades suffer, as a result of the constant moves. She has also described feeling lonely, displaced, and lost, during those years. The ordeal ultimately found expression in her work as a writer.
Eventually, her parents settled the family in a poor Chicago neighborhood, where they bought a small house. They understood that education was a key to escaping the poverty around them and required their children to own library cards. She found comfort in the books she read, as a result, and also began to write. By the time she finished high school, she had written some poetry and served as the editor of her high school’s literary magazine.
She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in English at Loyola University Chicago, and was then accepted into the prestigious University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop to pursue her master’s degree. It was in this graduate program, among fellow students who came from backgrounds of affluence and privilege, that she said she began to find her voice as a working-class, Mexican American woman.
She returned to Chicago and worked at various jobs to support herself while she wrote, and she earned a number of fellowships and guest lectureships, which also helped sustain her.
Today, she is a critically acclaimed writer whose works include The House on Mango Street, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Caramelo, Woman Hollering Creek and other Stories, Loose Woman, Have you Seen Marie?, and A House of My Own, which have been translated into more than twenty languages.
In 1995, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—popularly named the “genius grant”—which is given, no strings attached, “to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” She was also awarded the 2015 National Medal of Arts, by former President Barack Obama, and the 2017 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Chair's Award, among numerous additional honors.
She has used her success as a platform for giving back, founding the Macondo Foundation for socially engaged writers; the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, a grant-giving institution serving writers in Texas for 15 years; and the Latino MacArthur Fellows or Los MacArturos, a caucus of Latino MacArthur awardees united in community service.
In an interview with arts and literature college magazine, Miambiance, she offered the following advice for aspiring writers: “I would tell them to go to school; most importantly, to get an education, and to get a degree that would allow them to be economically solvent—if they don’t want to be homeless.”
Sandra Cisneros' spirited collection of lectures, essays and family memories, 'A House of My Own: Stories From My Life,' explores human yearning for home, a safe place where we can be ourselves.
For Cisneros, the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican father, it meant straddling traditional and contemporary cultures and setting out to find her place in the world.
In 'Only Daughter' she tells the story of being asked to write her own contributor's note.
She wrote: 'I am the only daughter in a family of six sons. That explains everything.' Later she thought, 'I should have written: 'I'm the only daughter in a Mexican family of six sons.'
Or, 'of a working-class family of nine. All of these things have to do with who I am today.' Being an only daughter had its advantages. Her father decided going to college was a way for her to find a good husband.
The title essay recounts her early days of living and writing in Bucktown, 'a down-at-the-heels' neighborhood of Chicago, where Nelson Algren once roamed and not far from Saul Bellow territory.
She recalls an exhilarating time of learning and discovering how to be a writer, how to live alone, how to trust your own voice, how to teach students who 'have to defend themselves from someone beating them up' to write poetry.
She goes to literary soirees, changes jobs, meets other writers and poets of color. She gets an agent.
Her father finally understands she can provide for herself by writing. After leaving her hometown behind, she writes 'I no longer make Chicago my home, but Chicago will still makes its home in me.'
'No Place Like Home,' written in 2014 for the Thomas Wolfe Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives a nod to the organic nature of this thing we call home.
'My writing is my home, now,' said Wolfe. 'We find ourselves at home, or homing in books that allow us to become more ourselves,' writes Cisneros. People, books, education and experiences influence and broaden her worldview, but also bring bittersweet loss.
'The paradox for a working class writer is that we are never more exiled from our real homes, from the blood kin we have honored on our pages, than when we have drifted away from them on that little white raft called the page.'
When Cisneros was invited by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to lecture about an object in the museum, she decided to write about the museum's upholstery because her father was an upholsterer. The lecture 'Tapicero's Daughter' takes a brilliant turn weaving together her love of textiles with stories of the family's faithful Sunday visits to the museums of Chicago, her father soaking his blistered feet after a hard day's work upholstering fine furniture for North Shore matrons, and her mother's calling as a 'supreme collector of anything found in thrift stores, garage sales, and liquidations.'
This lovely essay pays tribute to her parents and calls out the differences and similarities between classes and cultures.
This collection puts a gifted storyteller at your fingertips, one who offers a panoply of life in apartments, rented rooms and borrowed houses, a journey with a curious, lively mind and reflections on cultures, families and traditions.
Cisneros eventually buys a beautiful home in San Antonio, Texas. Years later, seeking a less demanding lifestyle, she leaves for Mexico, where she now lives near the place her mother's ancestors lived.
'A house. A writing machine. These two go hand in hand for me. I feel like writing when I'm at home,' she writes.
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