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1 online resource (x, 428 pages). |
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Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On The house on Mango Street / María Herrera-Sobek -- Biography of Sandra Cisneros / Gloria A. Duarte-Valverde -- The Paris review perspective / Chloë Schama for The Paris review -- Critical contexts -- Midwest Raíces: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Amelia María de la Luz Montes -- The critical reception of The house on Mango Street / Amy Sickels -- On the "simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street / Felicia J. Cruz -- Stories from the "hem of life": contesting marginality in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Catherine Leen -- Critical readings -- The "dual"-ing images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Leslie Petty -- Memories of girlhood: Chicana lesbian fictions / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel -- Of woman bondage: the eroticism of feet in The house on Mango Street / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- Sandra Cisneros: border crossings and beyond / Robin Ganz -- "This bridge we call home": crossing and bridging spaces in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Stella Bolaki -- Crossing the borders of genre: revisions of the bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Maria Karafilis -- The house on Mango Street: a space of her own / Annie O. Eysturoy -- Coming of age in the curriculum: The house on Mango Street and Bless me, Ultima as representative texts / Delia Poey -- Homeplaces and spaces of their own / Maria-Antónia Oliver-Rotger -- More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Jacqueline Doyle -- Nature despoiled and artificial: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / James R. Giles -- Remembering always to come back: the child's wished-for escape and the adult's self- empowered return in Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street / Reuben Sanchez. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This volume offers an introduction to Sandra Cisneros's acclaimed novel. Four essays offer a framework for developing a deeper understanding of its key themes and contexts. Other essays cover feminist approaches to Mango Street, gender stereotypes, patriarchy, female friendships, and more. Also included are a brief biography and chronology of Cisneros's life, a complete list of her current major publications, and a bibliography of resources for further study. |
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Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street.
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House on Mango Street (Cisneros, Sandra) (OCoLC)fst01371973
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Cisneros, Sandra, 1954- House on Mango Street.
(DE-588)7719662-4
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Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Added Author |
Herrera-Sobek, María. Editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2011 9781587657177 (DLC) 2010030198 (OCoLC)651153730 |
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9781587657184 (electronic bk.) |
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158765718X (electronic bk.) |
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