Sandra Cisneros’s argument that naysayers should simply write their own stories flew in the face of her own admission that audiences are skeptical to pick up a book by an author with a “Latino last name.”
argued that the book is a several-hundred-page collection of negative stereotypes of Mexicans and Mexican culture,Gurba referred to an early scene in the book where a wealthy, sophisticated cartel head tries to woo the main character by bringing her conchas, a Mexican sweet bread, an action Gurba said was equivalent to a man trying to “sweep an American woman off her feet by bringing her doughnuts.” Cisneros said she felt that that Gurba’s comment about the conchas was merely “splitting hairs.
The supposed need to humanize begs the question: to whom are immigrants not already human? The answer has surfaced an upsetting reality in publishing: That the industry is willing to release simplified stories in the supposed interest of attracting a larger audience. How Latinx writers should react to that truth is a more complicated question. In response to the idea that some
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