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Against Patriarchy: Self-labelling as a Subversive Tool in Sandra Cisneros’ Poetry

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  • Meifan Jiang

    (South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China)

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The poetry of Mexican-American writer and poet Sandra Cisneros portrays female images that subvert patriarchal norms and is thus often regarded as rebellious and feminist. This paper explores select narrators in Cisneros’ poems, who embody three types of women that defy patriarchal ideologies based on analysis of the derogatory self-labelling adopted by these narrators in her poems “Night Madness Poem”, “Loose Woman”, “The Heart Rounds Up the Usual Suspects”, “Extreme Unction”, “Love Poem #1”, and “You Bring Out the Mexican in Me”. By exploring the archetypes of these three types of narrators and analysing the narrators’ processes of self-conception, this paper investigates the construction of narrators’ self-labelling and elucidates how self-labelling can function as a potent tool against patriarchy.

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  • Meifan Jiang, 2026. "Against Patriarchy: Self-labelling as a Subversive Tool in Sandra Cisneros’ Poetry," Trends in Sociology, Berger Science Press, vol. 4(1), pages 1-8, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cwi:tsocio:v:4:y:2026:i:1:p:1-8
    DOI: 10.61187/ts.v4i1.283
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