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The House on Mango Street

ELLEN MCCRACKEN (ESSAY DATE 1989)

SOURCE : McCracken, Ellen. “Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street: Community-Oriented Introspection and the Demystification of Patriarchal Violence.” In Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings, edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach, pp. 62-71. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

In the following essay, McCracken studies the instances of physical, sexual, and mental abuse committed against women in the male-dominated society depicted in The House on Mango Street. McCracken probes the effects these abuses have on Esperanza, the protagonist, and questions the apparent dearth of positive role models for her.

Introspection has achieved a privileged status in bourgeois literary production,...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Sandra Cisneros (Essay Date 1996)
4. General Commentary
   1. Deborah L. Madsen (Essay Date 2000)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The House on Mango Street
   2. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
   3. Caramelo
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

1. Feminism
2. Sandra Cisneros