Two contemporary US writers offer us narratives that defy conventional visions of space, time, gender and ethnicity, through their fictional memoirs. The aim of this paper is to discuss the deconstruction of the roles of the two females, Lala and Melanctha, in Getrude Stein's Three Lives and Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo together with the details from the novels. However, an intellectual, educated woman can resist this and deconstruct her role as the domestic, sacrificing caretaker of children and household by working and undertaking new roles in the society. Living in a patriarchal society can be perceived as the hegemony of males and it is concluded by the oppression of female ones because the dominancy of a gender upon the other one leads the less dominant group to be silenced or ignored. In the post-modern conditions of this age, all the grand theories, which used to be believed, have started to shatter and at the same time everything that has once been reliable have started to be questioned. In the modern world, all the classical notions of meaning, reality, knowledge and truth are doubted more than ever and fixed realities are missing therefore, the modern era can be named as a decentered universe. Beginning with the Mexican Revolution and ending sometime in the 1970s, Caramelo is also a bildungsroman, but the narrator finds her way in the world by rewriting the stories that comprise her family’s history to create her own story. Caramelo, a 2003 book by Sandra Cisneros, is a lengthy, fragmented novel divided into three parts. Set in rural Utah, this brief novel is a coming-of-age tale, or bildungsroman, that chronicles the experiences that will help the unnamed narrator make the transition from childhood to adulthood.

And the Earth Did Not Devour Him was originally written in Spanish in 1971. The novels that will be examined in this chapter are very different. While it is almost impossible to dispute the idea that the topic of the family is central to Chicana and Chicano writing, Stavans signals that such dominance must be weighed against authorial uses of the family motif as part of literary creations. According to Latino writer Ilan Stavans, “Geneology rules Latino literature tyrannically” and “fiction is a device used to explore roots”(54).

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