SOURCE: Sanchez, Reuben. “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.” Children's Literature 23 (1995): 221-41.
In the following essay, Sanchez contends that the narrator of The House on Mango Street rejects the traditional patriarchal myths of the home while celebrating the empowerment that comes from writing about and remembering the childhood experience of the household and family.
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