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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, C...

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 from...

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 traditional...

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros - 1984 Introduction The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros resists classification, with reviewers and critics alike labeling it differently. At one hundred and ten pages, it is about the length of a...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Though she traveled often to Mexico City, she was raised primarily in Chicago barrios that "appeared like France after World War II-empty lots and burned out...

Cover design by Lorraine Louie Hand lettering by Henry Sene...

In the following essay, Sánchez addresses Cisneros's treatment of home and homelessness in the stories comprising The House on Mango Street

In the essay below, de Valdés examines the "highly lyrical narrative voice" of The House on Mango Street in relation to textual representations of "a poetics of identity" as a Chicana writer.

In the essay below, Gutiérrez-Jones discusses Cisneros's transformation of conventional elements of the Bildungsroman genre in The House on Mango Street, focusing on the link between communal and individual narrative strategies.

Essay views "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros from a Marxist perspective.

"Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody and "The House on Mango Street" are both novels that can be compared as well as contrasted between the two women (in the novels)considering power, division of labor, and gender roles.

This essay is about, "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin, "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, and a little bit of a biography of Jean Toomer.