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| Name: |
Sandra Cisneros | | Birth Date: |
December 20, 1954 | | Place of Birth: |
Chicago, Illinois, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
Hispanic American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
author, poet |
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 Biography of Sandra Cisneros
6,741 words, approx. 23 pages
 Sandra Cisneros burst onto the publishing scene with her 1983 work, The House on Mango Street, the warm and human story of a young Chicana who comes of age in a Chicago barrio, fighting obstacles of racism, sexism, and cla ssism. With that single book,... summary from source:
Biography of Sandra Cisneros
5,281 words, approx. 18 pages
With her fiction and poetry Sandra Cisneros creates poignant stories and brings an original twist to universal themes, notably love. Yet, as Jim Sagel in Publishers Weekly pointed out, "Cisneros knows her characters live in an America very different... summary from source:
 Biography of Sandra Cisneros
4,821 words, approx. 16 pages
Drawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage Sandra Cisneros (born 1954) creates characters who are distinctly Hispanic and often isolated from mainstream American culture by emphasizing dialogue and sensory imagery over...
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 Sandra Cisneros Quotes
41 words, approx. 1 pages
 I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Cisneros, Sandra
223 words, approx. 1 pages(born December 20, 1954, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) American short-story writer and poet best known for her groundbreaking evocation of Mexican American life in Chicago. After graduating from Chicago's Loyola University (B.A., 1976), Cisneros attended... summary from source:
 Cisneros, Sandra (1954—) Summary
188 words, approx. 1 pagesBorn and raised in Chicago, Chicana writer and poet Sandra Cisneros is best known for The House on Mango Street (1983), a series of interconnected prose poems. She is one of a handful of Latina writers to make it big in the American literary scene... summary from source:
 Cisneros, Sandra Summary
14,594 words, approx. 49 pagesDrawing heavily upon her childhood experiences and ethnic heritage as the daughter of a Mexican father and Mexican American mother, Cisneros addresses poverty, cultural suppression, self-identity, and gender roles in her fiction and poetry. She creates... summary from source:
 Sandra Cisneros Information
773 words, approx. 3 pages
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954 in Chicago) is an American author and poet best known for her novel The House on Mango Street. She is also the author of Caramelo, published by Knopf in 2002. Much of her writing is influenced by her...
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 The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education The Analytical, Inspirational Sandra Cisneros
05/21/2007: 2,267 words, approx. 8 pages The book is 25 years old and still speaks to different generations - to grandmas and grandchildren, elementary schoolchildren and college students, professors and community leaders, men and women, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros has stood a test of time that... summary from source:
Latino Leaders A Latina of many colors, Sandra Cisneros.(Cover Story)(Biography)
04/01/2004: 2,669 words, approx. 9 pages Her works have not only left their mark among academics but also in the lives of many readers. The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, and her long awaited novel Caramelo, masterfully deliver her own voice and tell of a meaningful part...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jacqueline Doyle
14,300 words, approx. 48 pages
In the following essay, Doyle discusses the ways The House on Mango Street broadens the white middle-class feminist perspective expressed in Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own to include a working-class Chicana feminist perspective.
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Critical Essay by Felicia J. Cruz
13,939 words, approx. 47 pages
In the following essay, Cruz discusses the variety of reader responses to The House on Mango Street in terms of the textual ambiguity inherent in Cisneros's storytelling style.
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Critical Essay by Mary Pat Brady
13,274 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Brady examines the representation of space in Woman Hollering Creek, arguing that “Cisneros's stories perform their critique of the production of space in multiple ways, within individual stories and through the interplay between and among them.”
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