From Fleeing to Returning: Analysis of The House on Mango Street from the Perspective of Identity

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10.2991/cesses-19.2019.172How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sandra Cisneros; The House on Mango Street; identity crises

Abstract

The House on Mango Street written by Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros is a classic novel with its core being the growing experience of a Mexican-American girl during adolescence. According to Erikson, the main tasks during adolescence are to overcome identity crises and acquire time vision, self-assurance, role trail, achievement expectancy, gender identity and polarization of leadership and thinking so as to construct identity. From the perspective of Erickson’s identity theory, this essay analyzes The House on Mango Street and finds that it is a story about identity crises of Esperanza: she shatters various confinements, acquires identity in the personal and collective senses and enters adulthood smoothly.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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