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Building the Chicana Body in Sandra Cisneros' My Wicked Wicked Ways
- Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature
- Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
- Volume 56, Number 2, 2002
- pp. 25-43
- 10.1353/rmr.2002.a460599
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The article analyzes the corporeal subjectivity developed in My Wicked Wicked Ways, from the early poems' focus on the young girl's difficult struggle to negotiate her Chicago barrio's economic, spatial, and physical violence against the bodies and sexuality of women and children to the final poems' portrayal of an adult woman and her body's extensive ontological and epistomological rootedness in global affairs. This is the first article to provide a comprehensive critique of My Wicked Wicked Ways that argues for the existence of a singular poetic voice that both makes the collection coherent and allows for the recognition of the work as the description of one Chicana subject's chronological and spatial journey.