Towards the Poetics ofSandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street
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This paper attempts to delineate the poetics of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street. Despite the fact that Mango Street has, in recent years, firmly established itself as one of the most widely read and extensively wrote about work within the Mexican American literary canon (a.k.a. Chicano/Chicana literature), Cisneros' early critics and reviewers failed to see beyond the novel's facade as a typical semi-autobiographical 'coming of age' novel. The apparent idiosyncrasies in writing style, nonchalantly described by one critic as "the awkwardness of semiliteracy," was readily brushed off as a natural result of the young author's yet to be refined writing craft. Critics have generally been at odds with the overtly hybrid nature of novel's form and the conspicuously composite nature of the novel's content. However, this paper proposes that a close reading of the text will ultimately reveal the existence of a deliberate and calculative writing strategem. The seemingly incoherent blending of forms can be construed as a metaphor for the author's attempt to sketch out a composite of what it means to be a chicana living in the barrios of urban America. Taking the cue from several recent critics (notably Mermann-Jozwiak and Karafilis) who argue that the highly experimental nature of the novel can be seen in the context of the Mexican American discourse, this paper cautiously explores the possibilities of an ecriture Chicana, distinct from other established American minority discourse.
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