The House on Mango Street | Essays and Criticism
- Assessement of The House on Mango Street
In the following essay, Sarbanes assesses The House on Mango Street as an unusual example of both the novel form and the bildungsroman ("coming of age" story) as previously explored from the Chicano perspective.
- Literary Continuity in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
In this excerpt, Matchie presents The House on Mango Street as a contemporary parallel to the classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye.
- Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros
In this excerpt, Klein describes the character Esperanza's coming of age as a woman, a Chicana, and, at least for now, a resident of Mango Street.
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