Author: Cisneros, Sandra
Title: The house on Mango Street
Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1991
Description: x, 110 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number: PS3553 I78 H6 1991
Content(s): The house on Mango Street -- Hairs -- Boys & girls -- My name -- Cathy queen of cats -- Our good day -- Laughter -- Gil’s furniture bought & sold -- Meme Ortiz -- Louie, his cousin & his other cousin -- Marin -- Those who don’t -- There was an old woman she had so many children she didn’t know what to do -- Alicia who sees mice -- Darius & the clouds -- And some more -- The family of little feet -- A rice sandwich -- Chanclas -- Hips -- The first job -- Papa who wakes up tired in the dark -- Born bad -- Elenita, cards, palm, water -- Geraldo no last name -- Edna’s Ruthie -- The Earl of Tennessee -- Sire -- Four skinny trees -- No speak English -- Rafaela who drinks coconut & papaya juice on Tuesdays -- Sally -- Minerva writes poems -- Bums in the attic -- Beautiful & cruel -- A smart cookie -- What Sally said -- The monkey garden -- Red clowns -- Linoleum roses -- The three sisters -- Alicia & I talking on Edna’s steps -- A house of my own -- Mango says goodbye sometimes
Subject(s):
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Mexican Americans -- Fiction
- Girls -- Fiction
- Literature, Modern -- United States
- Mexican Americans -- Chicago
- Adolescent -- Chicago
Review(s):
- Dubb, Christina Rose. "Adolescent Journeys: Finding Female Authority in The Rain Catchers and The House on Mango Street." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 3 (September 2007): 219-232
- Wissman, Kelly. "“Writing Will Keep You Free”: Allusions to and Recreations of the Fairy Tale Heroine in The House on Mango Street." Children's Literature in Education 38, no. 1 (March 2007): 17-34
- Doyle, Jacqueline. "More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street." MELUS 19, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 6
Read: October 11, 2010
