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Chicana Creativity and Criticism: New Frontiers in American Literature ("Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, and the Poetics of Space" begins on p. 233)
by Maria Herrera-Sobek, Helena Maria Viramontes. 290 pgs.

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Preface

I. Poetry

Ii. Prose

Iii Criticism

Contributors

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Daughters of Self-Creation: The Contemporary Chicana Novel (Chap. 3 "The House on Mango Street: A Space of Her Own")
by Annie O. Eysturoy. 172 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Bildung as Entrapment

1: Victuum: A Psychic Rite of Passage

2: Trini

Part II: Bildung as a Subversive Act

3: The House on Mango Street

4: The Last of the Menu Girls

Conclusion: Toward a Definition of the Chicana Bildungsroman/Kunstlerroman

Notes

Glossary

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U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers ("Female Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street" begins on p. 101)
by Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Fernandez Olmos. 216 pgs.

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In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important writers as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Rudolfo Anaya in the curriculum. Without a guide, introducing courses on U.S. Latino literature or integrating individual works into the general courses on American Literature can be difficult for the uninitiated. While some critical sources for students and teachers are available, none are dedicated exclusively to this important body of writing. To fill the gap, the editors of this volume commissioned prominent scholars in the field to write 18 essays that focus on using U.S. Latino literature in the classroom. The selection of the subject texts was developed in conjunction with secondary school teachers who took part in the editors' course. This resultant volume focuses on major works that are appropriate for high school and undergraduate study including Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli, Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets, and Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.

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1: Literary Strategies in Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's The Account

2: Trials and Tribulations: the Life and Works of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

3: Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets

4: Un Mundo Entero

5: Historical and Magical, Ancient and Contemporary: the World of Rudolfo A. Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

6: The Self as Cultural Metaphor

7: Adapting, Not Assimilating: Edward Rivera's Family Installments

8: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the Rejection of the Private Self

9: Teaching Oscar Hijuelos' Our House in the Last World

10: Female Voices in Sandra Cisneros' the House on Mango Street

11: The Dominican-American Bildungsroman: Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

12: In Context: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

13: Writing a Life: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

14: Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Latin Deli

15: Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban: the Contested Domains of Politics, Family, and History

16: Junot Diaz's Drown: Revisiting "Those Mean Streets"

17: Using Latina Poetry in the Classroom

18: Borders and Birthrights: Watching Cheech Marin's Born in East L.A.

Appendices: Other Areas of Study for U.S. Latino Authors

Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street (1984)" begins on p. 141)
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

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This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.

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Preface

Introduction

Women’s Roles and Influence in Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

The War against the Feminine: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Doctor She! Helena and Sisterhood in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (ca. 1602–1603)

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Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877)

Young Lady or slut: Identity and Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1983)

Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles’ Antigone (441 B.C.E.)

Work Cited

Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin’s the Awakening (1899)

For Further Reading

Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees (1988)

William Faulkner’s Male Myth: the Bear (1942)

More Than Skin Deep: Robin Mckinley’s Beauty: a Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)

Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminine Mystique (1963)

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987): Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly Bonding

Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945, 1991) and Black Women

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Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s the Bluest Eye (1970)

Founding Women’s History: Christine de Pizan Writes the Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

Works Cited

A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932)

An Immigrant Girl’s Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers (1925)

For Further Reading

As My Mother’s Daughter: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)

Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta’s the Bride Price (1976)

The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London’s the Call of the Wild (1904)

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388–1400)

Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J.D.Salinger’s the Catcher in the Eye (1951)

Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple (1982)

The Women in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866)

Witch-Hunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Arthur Miller’s the Crucible (1953)

A Nice Girl Ought to Know! Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878)

Redefining Female Absence in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949)

Black and White Womanhood in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose: Mammies, Ladies, Rebels (1986)

Work Cited

Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self—the Female Adolescent Voice (1952)

For Further Reading

The Slammed Door That Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (1879)

Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911)

Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway’s a Farewell to Arms (1929)

The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress’ Florence (1950)

For Further Reading

Daring Creation: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, Revised 1831)

Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams’ the Glass Menagerie (1945)

What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936)

Works Cited

Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S.Buck’s the Good Earth (1931)

No Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861)

Works Cited

Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby (1925)

Reading between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1600)

Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Work Cited

When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

Works Cited

Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros’ the House on Mango Street (1984)

Living in a Borderland: Cultural Expectations of Gender in Julia Alvarez’ How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

A Song of Freedom: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Good Mother, Bad Mother in Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)

Bobbie Ann Mason’s in Country (1985): a Girl’s Quest for Her Father and Herself

The Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)

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Be True to Yourself: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)

Thinking Different in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club (1989)

Gender Bending: Ursula le Guin’s the Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

What a Teacher Learns: Ernest J.Games’ a Lesson before Dying (1993)

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The Foreignness of Femininity in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900)

Boys’ Club—no Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)

Unnatural: Women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (ca. 1606)

Emma Rouault Bovary: Gendered Reflections in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

(Re)surfacing Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

Critiquing “the We of Me”: Gender Roles in Carson Mccullers’ the Member of the Wedding (1946)

Works Cited

Beauty and Gender in Alix Kates Shulman’s Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972)

Where No Role Fits: Maggie’s Predicament in George Eliot’s the Mill on the Floss (1860)

For Further Reading

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Epic Tale of Male Destruction (1851)

For Further Reading

Images of Possibility: Gender Identity in Willa Cather’s My Àntonia (1918)

Work Cited

The Good Woman: Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (1954)

Boyhood Unraveled: Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)

Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)

Homer’s Odyssey: “the Iliad’s Wife” (ca. 700 B.C.E.)

Jocasta and Her Daughters: Women in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (ca. 430 B.C.E.)

Women Stripped of Humanity: John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men (1937)

Role Traps in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Under the Burden of Yellow Peril: Race, Class, and Gender in Yoshiko Uchida’s Picture Bride (1987)

For Further Reading

Woman and Art in James Joyce’s a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Truths Universally Acknowledged: Stereotypes of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Undue Influence in Muriel Spark’s the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Exploring the Gender Puzzle of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912)

Work Cited

Seasoned with Quiet Strength: Black Womanhood in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Heroism against the Odds: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1599)

Molly Bolts and Lifelines: Rita Mae Brown’s Ruby Fruit Jungle (1973)

A as Hester’s Autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter (1850)

Female Freedom in Other Places and Inner Spaces: Suzanne Fisher Staples’ Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989)

For Further Reading

Gender in Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)

Empowerment through Writing in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979)

Wearing “her Favour in the Battle”: the “go-Between” in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913)

Riding Tennessee Williams’ a Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Agent or Victim: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles (1891)

An African-American Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Fragmenting Culture, Fragmenting Lives: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959)

Just a Lady: Gender and Power in Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Women Righting Wrongs: Morality and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916)

For Further Reading

For Such as We Are Made Of, Such We Be: the Construction of Gender in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will (first Performed 1602)

Work Cited

The Power of Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

A Chinese-American Woman Warrior Comes of Age: Maxine Hong Kingston’s the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)

The Will to Survive in Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Procrustean Bed: Gender Roles in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)

Negotiating Tight Spaces: Women in Michael Dorris’ a Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988)

Index of Literary Works by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Entering The House on Mango Street" begins on p. 209)
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface: Native American Literature

Indian Preservation: Teaching Black Elk Speaks

Beauty Before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn (n. Scott Momaday)

Crying for Vision in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Ceremony: from Alienation to Reciprocity (leslie Marmon Silko)

Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)

Preface: African American Literature

Ethnic and Gender Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy

"Measure Him Right": an Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

"Closer to the Edge": Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Preface: Mexican American Literature

Learning to Read (and/In) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

Chicano Theatre Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

Entering the House on Mango Street (sandra Cisneros)

Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography

Preface: Asian American Literature

Searching for the Heart of "America" (carlos Bulosan)

"Growing with Stories":: Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities (maxine Hong Kingston)

Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Reading Between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Contributors
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Latino Literature in America (Chap. 3 "The Fiction of Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street (1984) and Woman Hollering Creek (1991)")
by Bridget Kevane. 151 pgs.

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There is growing awareness of the tremendous impact Latino writers have had on the recent literary scene, yet not all readers have the background to fully appreciate the merits and meanings of works like House on Mango Street, Line of the Sun, Bless Me Ultima, and In the Time of Butterflies. Offering analysis of their most important, popular, and frequently assigned fictional works, this book surveys the contributions of eight notable Latino writers: Julia Alvarez, Rodolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Christina Garcia, Oscar Hijuelos, Ortiz Cofer, and Ernesto Quinonez.

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Introduction

Other Suggested Readings

Chapter 1: The Fiction of Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1992) and in the Time of the Butterflies (1995)

Further Suggested Readings

Chapter 2: The Fiction of Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

Chapter 3: The Fiction of Sandra Cisneros: the House on Mango Street (1984) and Woman Hollering Creek (1991)

Chapter 4: The Fiction of Junot Díaz: Drown (1996)

Further Suggested Readings

Chapter 5: The Fiction of Cristina García: Dreaming in Cuban (1992) and the Ag’üero Sisters (1997)

Chapter 6: The Fiction of Oscar Hijuelos: the Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989)

Chapter 7: The Fiction of Judith Ortiz Cofer: the Line of the Sun (1989)

Chapter 8: The Fiction of Ernesto Quiñonez: Bodega Dreams (2000)

Selected Bibliography

Index

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The "Dual"-ing Images of la Malinche and la Virgen De Guadalupe in Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, in MELUS
by Leslie Petty. 14 pgs.

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Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings ("Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street: Community-Oriented Introspection and the Demystification of Patriarchal Violence" begins on p. 62)
by Asuncion Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, Nancy Saporta Sternbach. 268 pgs.

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Preliminary Considerations

Acknowledgments

Toward a Critical Practice Of Latina Writing

At the Threshold of the Unnamed: Latina Literary Discourse In the Eighties

Part I. Chicanas

Heat and Rain (testimonio)

"Nopalitos": the Making of Fiction (testimonio)

Doña Josefa: Bloodpulse Of Transition and Change

"A Deep Racial Memory of Love": The Chicana Feminism Of Cherríe Moraga

Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street: Community-Oriented Introspection and The Demystification of Patriarchal Violence

The Ties That Bind: Women And Community in Evangelina Vigil's Thirty An' Seen a Lot

The Sardonic Powers of the Erotic In the Work of Ana Castillo

Part Ii.: Puertorriqueñas

Puerto Rican Writers in the U.S., Puerto Rican Writers in Puerto Rico: a Separation Beyond Language

Open Letter to Eliana (testimonio)

Poetic Discourse of the Puerto Rican Woman in The U.S.: New Voices of Anacaonian Liberation

Señores, Don't Leibol Mi, Please!!: Ya Soy Luz María Umpierre

A Commentary on the Works of Three Puerto Rican Women Poets in New York

Latinas at the Crossroads: an Affirmation Of Life in Rosario Morales And Aurora Levins Morales': Getting Home Alive

Part Iii.: Cubanas

The Show Does Go On

From Immigrants to Ethnics: Cuban Women Writers in the U.S.

Dolores Pridás Coser Y Cantar: Mapping The Dialectics of Ethnic Identity and Assimilation

Part Iv.: Latinoamericanas from Other Countries

A Cuban-Panamanian-American-Lawyer-Writer Now in Connecticut

An Oral History (testimonio)

Notes on Contributors and Translators
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Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers (Chap. 3 "A Home in the Heart: An Interview with Sandra Cisneros")
by Bridget Kevane, Juanita N. Heredia. 168 pgs.

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Embracing Chicana, Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers and writers descended from a combined US and Latin American heritage, Latina literature is one of the fastest growing and most exciting fields in fiction. This literature is characterised by revisionist views of recent history, a concern with exile and borders, a blending of genres, and a complex understanding of the term feminist. In these ten interviews, Kevane and Heredia give writers the opportunity to talk about how they began to write, the craft of writing, the conjunction of life, art and politics, literary influences, and their goals as artists. Readers will meet Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Helena María Viramontes. The writers' personal and literary journeys vividly portrayed in these interviews will enrich and enhance the readers' understanding of this exciting field. The volume also includes bibliographies of the writers' work.

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Introduction

I Citizen of the World: An Interview with Julia Alvarez

(2) the Spirit of Humor: An Interview with Denise Chávez

(3) a Home in the Heart: An Interview with Sandra Cisneros

(4) a Side View: An Interview with Rosario Ferré

(5) at Home on the Page: An Interview with Cristina García

(6) Pa'Lante: An Interview with Nicholasa Mohr

7 City of Desire an Interview with Cherríe Moraga

(8) the Poetic Truth: An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer

(9) a Puerto Rican Existentialist in Brooklyn: An Interview with Esmeralda Santiago

(10) Praying for Knowledge: An Interview with Helena María Viramontes

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Claiming the Bittersweet Matrix: Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adrienne Rich, in Critique
by Nancy Corson Carter. 10 pgs.

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