The house on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros / editor, Maria Herrera-Sobek, University of Caifornia, Santa Barbara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herrera-Sobek, Mar�ia, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street.

Cisneros, Sandra.

House on Mango Street (Cisneros, Sandra).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 428 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2011.

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2011]

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.

Contents:

On The house on Mango Street / Mar�a Herrera-Sobek

Biography of Sandra Cisneros / Gloria A. Duarte-Valverde

The Paris review perspective / Chlo�e Schama for The Paris review

Critical contexts

Midwest Ra�ces: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Amelia Mar�a 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 / Catri�ona 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-Ant�onia 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros.

ISBN:

9781587657184

158765718X

OCLC:

721900559