Brief Analysis of Dolores Prida’s Coser y Cantar

In this play, Prida demonstrates how the American melting pot cracks every time SHE tries to shut down ELLA, because her efforts of integrating into the American society as a non-Hispanic woman are in vain, since her other side, which one could call her true side even, keeps coming up, interrupting SHE, and sometimes becoming the dominant side. As a non-Hispanic non-American reader of this play, I personally cannot relate to these cultural struggles; however, I can understand that “[t]he melting-pot ideal is fine for those who have forgotten the excruciating pain of being melted down and repoured into a different mold” (Bruce-Novoa, 1982: 8). This quote alone tells so much about the melting pot already, exposing it as something that only those who are unfortunate to go through assimilation can know, which is nothing good <a href="https://medium.com/@larayildirim/brief-analysis-of-dolores-pridas-coser-y-cantar-bf7f6d5424f4">Click Here</a>