Ethnicity in "Loose Woman" and other texts

I'll grant that this posting may be quite moot, but I think that there is an important connection we can make between the texts that we have read so far. As we are reading quickly through Loose Woman, there is a palpable sense of identity that Cisneros has as being of Spanish descent. However, it seems that much of it is not too positive. I think that we can see clear enough that she struggles with the violence and even discrimination that she sees as an individual who is of another ethnicity. We can also say that this struggle is a sum of social unrest, but it is interesting how Cisneros makes her Spanish identity, and what she may believe to be "flaws", at the core of her poems.

I would posit that there is a connection that Cisneros makes with Audre Lorde and even back to Phillis Wheatley. Even though both of these previous poets have different technical circumstances, the ends are the same. Outside racial prejudice and discrimination clearly affect their livelihoods, but this struggle seems to come back to the concept of actual identity, specifically ethnicity. Even so, all three of these authors have a certain level of command and power to their words (Wheatley is a unique case, as we have debated here and in class), and they also are able not to truly "accept" their being, but to embrace it, and try to find a better way out for themselves. The only difference I would extend with Cisneros is that she seems, to me, not to do a whole lot about the violence that she comes into contact with or is aware about. I could be going into this completely off-the-rock, and I encourage you all to tell me otherwise; it just may be that I am not reading deeply enough.

The crux of this is that ethnicity, as a component of identity, seems to be a great part of this intersectionality connecting these women writers to each other. It drives the hardship, but it may also be an influence in driving each's ambitions. It also here that we could make a connection or distinction between race, ethnicity, and personage as a whole.