Identity between Languages: The case of spanglish in short narratives

Abstract

This article analyses the role of Spanglish in short narratives to evaluate its use within the process of identity construction. For this purpose, three short stories were chosen: Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek, " Aurora Levins Morales’s “A Remedy for Heartburn, " and Rosario Morales’s “Cosecha.” Studied as a linguistic phenomenon, the Spanglish present in these works illustrates how individual and cultural identities of writers and characters are defined by language.