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    A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who"
    A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who"
    A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who"
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    A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who"

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    A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393784
    A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Abuelito Who"

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      Abuelito Who

      Sandra Cisneros

      1987

      Introduction

      Abuelito Who is a work of free verse by poet, story writer, novelist, and essayist Sandra Cisneros, a groundbreaking figure in Mexican American literature. Her acclaimed debut novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), brought modern American barrio life into literary focus, and her poems and essays have revealed her to be a self-assured and outspoken proponent of women's voices and rights.

      One of Cisneros's more outspoken texts is My Wicked Wicked Ways (1987), a volume of poetry expanding on her master's thesis from the University of Iowa's prestigious writing program with additional verse produced over the following decade. In the volume's verse preface, she refers to this period of her life as a time of liberation and experimentation in the art of living. Notwithstanding the wayward-minded title, the collection's poems touch on a wide variety of life experiences, ranging from the supposedly immoral to the clearly tragic to the innocently reminiscent. Abuelito Who, contained in the collection's first section, 1200 South/2100 West, is a poem that memorializes the poet's grandfather—in Spanish, abuelo or abuelito. With Abuelito's image conjured up by little more than a scattering of items like coins, a doorknob, and shoes, Cisneros conveys both how meaningful a relationship with a grandparent can be and how ephemeral it must prove. Abuelito Who can also be found in Vintage Cisneros (2007).

      Author Biography

      Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois, to a factory worker, Elvira, and an upholsterer, Alfredo. Her mother's family was of Mexican origin, having emigrated during the long revolution of the 1910s; her grandfather's railroad labor enabled the family to settle in Chicago. Her father was born in Mexico, where he reached college but declined to apply himself to his schoolwork, earned disappointing grades, and left for the United States. Crossing the country from the South toward California, Alfredo met Elvira by chance while passing through Chicago

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