%0 Journal Article %A Quintana Millamoto, María Esther %T Los hilos sueltos de la historia : "Caramelo, or, puro cuento" %D 2011 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11090 %X This essay analyzes how "Caramelo, or, puro cuento" (2002) by Sandra Cisneros contests official and patriarchal renditions of the past involving Mexico and the U.S. by using narrative sub-genres such as historiographic metafiction, autobiographical fictions, cultural hunting and the New Historical Novel, Cisneros underlines the subjective, intertextual, and ideological nature of historiography and fiction to validate her own feminist and postcolonial version of Mexican and American history. %K Sandra Cisneros %K Chicano literature %K Feminism %K New historical novel %K Historiographic metaphiction %K Autobiographical fiction %K Transnational identity %K Hybrid identities %K Miscenegation %K Cultural hunting %K Literatura chicana %K Feminismo %K Nueva novela histórica %K Metaficciones historiográficas %K Autobiografías ficticias %K Mestizaje %K Identidad transnacional %K Hibridez cultural %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala