Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 1992

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1991.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

ARTE PUBLICO PRESS: “Mexican Movies” by Sandra Cisneros was first published in the Americas Review, Volume 16, No. 3-4.

Reprinted by permission.

TRADITION MUSIC COMPANY: Excerpt from the song “Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio” by Santiago Jimenez.

Reprinted by permission.

Some of the stories in this work were originally published in Americas Review, Grand Street, Humanizarte, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Saguaro, Story, and The Village Voice Literary Supplement.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cisneros, Sandra.

Woman hollering creek and other stories / Sandra Cisneros.—1st Vintage contemporaries ed.

p. cm.—(contemporaries)

“Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1991”—T.p. verso.

eISBN: 978-0-8041-5088-0

1. Mexican Americans—Fiction. 2. Mexican-American Border Region—Fiction. I. Title.

[PS3553 I78W66 1992]

813′. 54—dc2o 91-58002

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