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6 pages in length. The writer discusses Sandra Cisneros' Mericans, Mary Robinson's Yours and Marie Luise Kaschnitz's Women's Program. No bibliography.
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writing that illustrates just how an entire population can become suspended within two very different types of cultural existence, not Mexican nor American but rather Merican, a somewhat undefinable reality
where one is not really a part of either world. Even though the characters may have been able to speak English, it did not automatically mean they were any
more a part of the American culture than did speaking Spanish mean they were still members of their own Mexican heritage. The details
Cisneros uses to help her reader visualize the place and bring it to life is by bringing to light mankinds shortcomings toward the perpetual quest for cultural and spiritual enlightenment.
A relevant phrase in literary circles that relates to the overall concept of Cisneros theme is that of the human condition, which refers -- quite logically -- to the
definition of being human. Analyzing Mericans, one finds that the human condition is a regular consideration, in that humanity is constantly in question: Is Man strong or weak, good
or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what compels Cisneros to delve deeply into the conscience of humanity. The young people
in the story relate to their bilingual/cultural context, cultural heritage and dominant culture influence by trying to find some semblance of common ground between the past, present and future of
their cultural existence. Realizing that they are caught between two distinctive and very different civilizations, the only option they have is to find a space -- however small --
that reflects what is important to them as individuals and also as members of two wholly divergent cultures. Cisneros reminds her reader how the truth that lies within a story
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