The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Binder, Wolfgang, ed. Partial Autobiographies: Interviews with Twenty Chicano Poets. Erlangen, Germany: Verlag, Palm & Enke, 1985.

Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth, ed. Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Twentieth-Century Literature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Kelley, Margot. “A Minor Revolution: Chicano/a Composite Novels and the Limits of Genre.” In Ethnicity and the American Short Story, edited by William E. Cain and Julia Brown. New York: Garland, 1997.

Kuribayashi, Tomoko and Julie Tharp, eds. Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women’s Writing. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Madsen, Deborah L. Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

Quintana, Alvina E., Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia. Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

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by laughoutloud00, August 20, 2012

Esperanza's name means hope in ENGLISH, not Spanish

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