The House on Mango Street (1983)
The House on Mango Street (1983)
Sandra Cisneros, 1954-
The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Part of the Charvat Collection of American Literature
PS3553.I8 H68 1983
Dedicated “A las Mujeres” or “To the Women,” The House on Mango Street is a story of a young Chicana girl growing up in Chicago. Like the other books, this was also written by an adult, unlike them it was written in the first person, from a girl’s perspective. So instead of offering examples of how a girl should behave in the third person, The House on Mango Street allows girls to have agency in telling their own stories. Girls can then find shared experiences from their own girlhoods as well as different perspectives on the same stage of life. And as the main character struggles to find her place in society, young girls who read her story are taught to question and fight against the expected gender roles they are placed in.