SOURCE: "Self-Baptizing the Wicked Esperanza: Chicana Feminism and Cultural Contact in The House on Mango Street," in Mester, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall, 1993, pp. 123-34.
In the following essay, Busch examines Esperanza's exploration of her Chicana identity in Cisneros's short story collection.
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