This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. It is also in the assemblage and reassemblage of elements that belong to different cultures, mostly Mexican, Hispanic, and US popular culture, but not restricted to them.

De origen muy humilde, es hija de dos artesanos fabricantes de rebozos. For critics, transnationalism is in the itinerant quality of the Reyes family, and in their interaction with immigrants in the multicultural neighborhoods where they live. Es la abuela de Celaya y, por momentos, co-narradora de Caramelo. The novel traces Lala’s family trips to Mexico to visit her grandparents, and the Reyes family’s changes of residence in the United States. Caramelo (2002), by Sandra Cisneros Argument-Based Discussion Questions These argument-based questions on Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo can be used in a variety of ways in class to help students to analyze the text in relation to the debatable interpretive questions established at the beginning of the unit. Two round trips inform the chronological plot: Chicago–Mexico City–Acapulco–Chicago, and Chicago–San Antonio–Chicago. For Manuel Martín-Rodríguez, Caramelo’s transnationalism complicated the tension between history and fiction, what he called “f(r)icción histórica” (“Puro Cuento” 66). Ellen McCracken saw the novel as a “nomadic text” that explores the intersection of hybridity and memory and the position of Chicanas as “exotic others” (McCracken, “Postmodern” 3).

In the earliest reviews of Sandra Cisneros’s long awaited novel Caramelo (2002), critics highlighted the novel’s transnationalism as a feature that would add originality and would broaden the scope of literature.

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