An Interpretation of The House on Mango Street from the Perspective of Self Consciousness and Patriarchy

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10.2991/essd-18.2018.73How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The House on Mango Street, growth, self consciousness, feminism, patriarchy

Abstract

Sandra Cisneros is an outstanding contemporary poet, a Mexican writer. Her novel The House on Mango Street tells us a story about the life of a poor Mexican girl living in Chicago community. The protagonist of this story is a teenage girl, and the author narrates her stories, including the mental journey, growing up experience and exploring inner experiences by herself during the stage of growth. This paper is going to explore the construction and awaking of Esperanza’s self-consciousness , and her voiceless resistance of patriarchy under the guidance of the theories about self-consciousness and patriarchy. It finds out according to her surrounding environment, Esperanza builds up her self- consciousness and cognition of the world which inspires her to revolt the patriarchy. The author of this paper hopes this paper may shed some light on the study of this novel and offer some help to those young girls like Esperanza in our daily life.

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© 2018, 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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