Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity | Sandra Cisneros
In the following essay, Tompkins discusses Cisneros’s life and writings.
Sandra Cisneros, poet and short-story writer, is best known for The House on Mango Street (1983), a Chicana novel of initiation, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1985. In this lyrical novella Cisneros challenges the conventions of the bildungsroman by weaving the protagonist’s quest for selfhood into the fabric of the community. Such a dual focus is usual in Cisneros’s poetry and prose, in which a multiplicity of voices illustrate the ways the individual engages in the discourses and social practices of Chicano culture. Additionally, by focusing on the...
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