The House on Mango Street | Literary Precedents
Cisneros wrote the vignettes in The House on Mango Street while struggling with her identity as an author at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop in the 1970s. She was influenced by Russian-born novelist and poet Vladimir Nabokov's memoirs as well as by her own experiences as a child in the Chicago barrio. This engaging book has brought the author critical acclaim and a 1985 Before Columbus American Book Award. The work also has been highly lauded for its impressionistic, poetic style and powerful imagery. Though Cisneros was a young writer and her work was not plentiful at the...
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