Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street.

Cisneros, Sandra.

Physical Description:

vii, 196 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2010]

Summary:

In her acclaimed novel, Sandra Cisneros explores the often-violent coming of age of a young Mexican-American woman living in a patriarchal community resistant to change. Compared to the works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The House on Mango Street is made up of interconnected vignettes, meditations and observations, and lyrical passages that some critics have likened to prose poems. This new title in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series presents a range of full-length critical essays discussing the work and offers an introduction by esteemed critic Harold Bloom.

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the writer's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

Contents:

In search of identity in Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Maria Elena de Valdés

More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Jacqueline Doyle

Literary continuity in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Thomas Matchie

The house on Mango Street: a space of her own / Annie O. Eysturoy

A home in the heart: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Nicholas Sloboda

Of woman bondage: the eroticism of feet in The house on Mango Street / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama

Culture as transition: becoming a woman in bi-ethnic space / Maria Szadziuk

The "dual"-ing images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Leslie Petty

En otras voces: multiple voices in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Beth L. Brunk

"Writing will keep you free": allusions to and recreations of the fairy tale heroine in The house on Mango Street / Kelly Wissman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781604135862

1604135867

OCLC:

290487332