The Search for Identity in “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros
This paper explores the search for identity in the short story “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros, examining such identity characteristics as ethnicity, race, gender, and marital status. Additionally, such defense mechanisms as denial and projection are analyzed, as well as the stru...
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University of Ostrava
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Ostrava Journal of English Philology |
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| description | This paper explores the search for identity in the short story “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros, examining such identity characteristics as ethnicity, race, gender, and marital status. Additionally, such defense mechanisms as denial and projection are analyzed, as well as the structure of the story. Overall, the analysis shows that finding one’s identity is so crucial that if a person does not comply with the conventions of human society, he or she may start looking for possibilities of identification outside the human race |
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| spelling | doaj.art-572b65b2c5ef408fa17e6d51cf1d8ce62023-07-14T10:35:12ZengUniversity of OstravaOstrava Journal of English Philology1803-81742571-02572023-01-01142354510.15452/OJoEP.2022.14.0009The Search for Identity in “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra CisnerosKristīna Korneliusa This paper explores the search for identity in the short story “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros, examining such identity characteristics as ethnicity, race, gender, and marital status. Additionally, such defense mechanisms as denial and projection are analyzed, as well as the structure of the story. Overall, the analysis shows that finding one’s identity is so crucial that if a person does not comply with the conventions of human society, he or she may start looking for possibilities of identification outside the human racehttps://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/14-2/OJEP_22-2_Korneliusa.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Kristīna Korneliusa The Search for Identity in “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros Ostrava Journal of English Philology |
| title | The Search for Identity in “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros |
| title_full | The Search for Identity in “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros |
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| title_short | The Search for Identity in “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros |
| title_sort | search for identity in never marry a mexican by sandra cisneros |
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