Border spaces in Nicholasa Mohr's growing up inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination.(Critical Essay)

The many of us who read Nicholasa Mohr awaited with eagerness the 1994 publication, as part of the Simon and Schuster series "In My hold Words," of her memoir Growing Up inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination. Its advent promised to increase the depth of our understanding of the forging of Mohr's creative imagination and the elaboration of her literary art in her short story collections El Bronx Remembered, In Nueva York, and Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, her novel Nilda, and in her fiction for young race Felita and Going Home--and indeed it does. single encounters in the ...