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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"The House on Mango Street"”.
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An Exploration of Dual Identity in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
… that comes across in Sandra Cisneros’s <em>The House on Mango Street</em>. In this novella, the protagonist, Esperanza Cordero, tries to discover, create, and accept the complexity of her dual identity that is influence by her experiences with poverty, discrimination, classism, and gender …
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Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman
<p>Treating Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker as Erziehungsroman—that is, stories whose coming-of-age process depends on the characters' education—reveals the similar process that both Esperanza Cordero and Henry Park experience as they navigate the 1960s …
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Pedagogy and profit: Multiethnic literature, gender and young adult publishing
<p>This project argues that the adult/young adult division has the effect of maintaining social difference—especially along the lines of race and gender—while simultaneously ignoring the process of maintaining social hierarchies that occurs during the publication, reviewing and educational …
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Beyond Lip Service: How teachers in a private school utilize multicultural literature
This qualitative dissertation is an investigation of the experiences of four middle grade teachers, three female and one male, three Caucasian and one African American who use multicultural literature in their language arts classrooms and the responses of the students of color they teach. The …
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Breaking the silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works by Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison through the lens of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of speech and style
Since antiquity there has been a debate centered on the female voice. Thousands of years later, two modern American ethnic writers, Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison, examine the topic of the female voice through their literary works, including Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Woman …
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Developing Latin American Feminist Theory: Strategies of Resistance In the Novels of Luisa Valenzuela and Sandra Cisneros
<p>Latin American literary theory has developed in the face of identity crises arising throughout its history as critics, theorists, and writers attempt to identify what is truly "Latin American" and not merely the imitation of works and importing of ideas from First World colonizing powers. Latin …
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Counter-discursive strategies in first-world migrant writing
This thesis offers an analytical discussion of contemporary fictional and autobiographical narratives by migrants who write in a language other than their mother tongue and/or grew up in a bilingual environment. While not all literature by ethnic minority writers is necessarily concerned with the …