Posted on: July 17th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ Hispanic News ]
Tags: border, population
“Don’t be fooled by the title. Although the phrase “brides and sinners” suggests the played-out virgin-whore stereotype of Latina women, the Chicanas in this debut short-story collection are anything but clichés. Neither saints nor she-devils, Christine Granados’ protagonists are, instead, ordinary people living in El Paso, the arid border town known to its majority Mexican American population as “El Chuco” (”the disgusting one”). An El Paso native, Granados portrays the city as a sand-blown land of contradictions, where people daily navigate the worlds of Mexicans and Anglos, immigrants and natives, the barrio and the middle class. The young women in “Brides and Sinners in El Chuco” are some of the edgiest of this edge city’s residents, continually pushing the boundaries of feminine propriety and ethnic tradition.”
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