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Comparing Sandra Cisneros 'Woman Hollering Creek And' Girl

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The stories that were mentioned before, “Woman Hollering Creek” and “Girl” belong to two different authors that use their own variety of the English language: in the case of Sandra Cisneros, she speaks Chicano English; as for Jamaica Kincaid, Caribbean English. Even though these authors write in Standard English, their varieties have a big influence on their texts with regard to the use of elements that just belong to their cultures and make them unique and recognizable for the reader. For example, the legend of La Llorona (51) and telenovela (44) for Cisneros, and benna music and doukona for Kincaid. Thus, both writers express their identity through their texts On the one hand, and despite it is written in Standard English, in “Woman Hollering

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