In 1997, Sandra Cisneros bought a house on East Guenther Street, in the historic district of San Antonio.
She decided to repaint the house in "periwinkle purple” and originated a fight in the community. The community protested about her will of having a purple house in this historic neighborhood considering her choice of color to be “inappropriate”.
Cisneros argued in the local newspaper :
"The issue is bigger than my house. The issue is about historical inclusion. I want to paint my house a traditional color, but please give me a broader palette than surrey beige, sevres blue, hawthorn green, frontier days brown, and Plymouth Rock grey. . . . I thought I had painted my house a historic color. Purple is historic to us. It only goes back a thousand years or so to the pyramids. It is present in the Nahua codices, book of the Aztecs, as is turquoise, the color I used for my house trim; the former color signifying royalty, the latter, water and rain.
She finally won in court and kept her house painted in purple.
Cisneros appear as a rebel, either in her own writings but also in her real life. I don’t think she is really concern about that Aztec stuff, but I really think that she enjoys challenging the cultural bigotry of traditions and role models.
She decided to repaint the house in "periwinkle purple” and originated a fight in the community. The community protested about her will of having a purple house in this historic neighborhood considering her choice of color to be “inappropriate”.
Cisneros argued in the local newspaper :
"The issue is bigger than my house. The issue is about historical inclusion. I want to paint my house a traditional color, but please give me a broader palette than surrey beige, sevres blue, hawthorn green, frontier days brown, and Plymouth Rock grey. . . . I thought I had painted my house a historic color. Purple is historic to us. It only goes back a thousand years or so to the pyramids. It is present in the Nahua codices, book of the Aztecs, as is turquoise, the color I used for my house trim; the former color signifying royalty, the latter, water and rain.
She finally won in court and kept her house painted in purple.
Cisneros appear as a rebel, either in her own writings but also in her real life. I don’t think she is really concern about that Aztec stuff, but I really think that she enjoys challenging the cultural bigotry of traditions and role models.
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