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Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991).
After “The House on Mango Street,” the author continued to make significant contributions to literature, poetry, and efforts to push for women’s and Latino rights. She’s also published ...
The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.
[6] Feminist science fiction is sometimes taught at the university level to explore the role of social constructs in understanding gender. [7] Notable texts of this kind are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale (1985).
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street; Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices; Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless; Dhonielle Clayton: The Belles; Rosemary Clement-Moore: Texas Gothic, The Splendor Falls, Prom Dates from Hell, Hell Week, Highway to Hell; Ernest Cline: Ready Player One
Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (1983) is a Mexican-American coming-of-age novel, dealing with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a neighborhood modeled on Chicago's Humboldt Park. It commonly appears in American high school reading lists.
Dworkin compares the place and depiction of women in fairy tales and pornography, focusing on the French erotic novels Story of O and The Image, and the magazine Suck.She then looks at the historical practices of Chinese foot binding and Medieval European witch burning from a radical feminist perspective.
Nancy Freeman-Mitford [n 1] CBE (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period.