BABEL-2024/2025 Season, 1-Sandra Cisneros
Databases
Gale Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. NOVELny Virtual Tour
Gale Literature: Books and Authors
Reviews and recommendations to assist with book selection. NOVELny
Gale Literature Criticism
Brings together several literary series from Gale, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. NOVELny Virtual Tour
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico
Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua Española y Portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. (Informe Académico provides access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.)NOVELny
Websites
Author's Website
A link to the author's website.
Literary Hub
This links to a Lit Hub article, 'Sandra Cisneros on the Private Act of Writing Poetry,' from August 2022.
Ford Foundation
Here is a brief video and article about Art of Change Fellow Sandra Cisneros about how art changes lives from February 2019.
Annenberg Learner
American Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course; the video programs, print guides, and Web site place literary movements and authors within the context of history and culture. The course takes an expanded view of American literary movements, bringing diverse voices and tracing their continuity. The materials, coordinated with the Norton Anthology of American Literature, can be used as the basis of a one or two-semester college-level course or for teacher professional development. The Sandra Cisneros article is under the sixteenth part, 'Search for Identity,' from April 2019.
National Endowment for the Arts
"Recognizing Ourselves," Interview with Sandra Cisneros (American Artscape Magazine, 2016, Issue 1).
PBS Books
Here is a link to a PBS video from the Author Talk series featuring Sandra Cisneros from March 2023.
NPR
From the NPR podcast Code Switch, 'How Sandra Cisneros Found Space To Be 'Barefoot' And 'Rude,' from July 2021.
Life Stories
An interview with Sandra Cisneros: 'How Anger Helped Me Write My Most Popular Book,' from June 2023.
Live Talks Los Angeles
Sandra Cisneros discusses her book, Have You Seen Marie? with Hector Tobar at Live Talks Los Angeles, from December 2021.
On Being with Krista Tippett
This podcast interview, 'Sandra Cisneros A House of Her Own,' discusses Sandra's upbringing and decision to defy her heritage's custom to marry and instead live independently from February 2020.
Community and Local Links
Just Buffalo Literary Center
The premier center for the literary arts in the Buffalo/Niagara region, Just Buffalo promotes community-based literary events throughout the year.
Library Materials
Click the following link to search for the author's works in the Library's Catalog.
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Immigrants
Isolation
Mexican Women
Self Identity