WOMAN IN LITERATURE by

The Image of Woman in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

By Amalia LomeliDr. UriosteCapstone 2013

.Outline Abstract Research QuestionsStudy Significance Research background Literature Review Findings Conclusion

Abstract

The purpose of my capstone is to discuss the portrayal of woman by Cisneros in the novel The House of Mango Street. A coming of Age novel, the story focuses on the growth and maturation of Esperanza, a young girl in the verge of entering womanhood. In her journey Esperanza encounters and engages various woman that, in one way or another, have fallen victim to men and exposes taboo scenarios such as patriarchy, domestic violence and rape within the Chicano/Latino community . After presenting different scenarios in which Esperanza has been exposed to this victimization of woman, Cisneros promotes education as a liberating tool for woman.

Research Questions How Sandra Cisneros exposes the role of women within the Chicano/Latino community?

How young woman accept or reject the imposed role of woman within their culture?

Study Significance The analysis will provide a description of the taboo topics within the Chicano/Latino community. The novel The House on Mango Street is a novel for political and social resistance. The success of Cisneros with her novel has empower woman around the world to challenge imposed roles by any given culture.Definitions Patriarchy 1 :social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line;broadly:control by men of a disproportionately large share of power

Feminism1 :the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes2 :organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests.

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6Introduction to Literature

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz XVII CenturyRecognized for Replay to Sister Filotea of the CrossConsider one of the precusors of feminism

Feminist Woman in Literature during XX Century

Rosario Castellanos Mexican poet and author

Elena Poniatowska one of the best Mexican writer and journalist

Elena Garro consider one the greatest Latin American writers.

Influence of the Chicano Culture in the feminine literature during the 80s

Maximum exponents of the Chicano LiteratureGloria AnzalduaBerenice Zamora Ana Castillo Estela Portillo Trambley, set the standard in the Chicano Literature by presenting woman in strong roles that challenged male dominance

Sandra CisnerosReceived a Masters from the prestigious University of Iowa Writers Shop challenging her fathers dream for her to become a meteorologist get married and have kids.

Cisneros find her voice to write when she feels isolated and marginalized in Iowa where she was the only Latina in the writer shop that did not own a house that she felt proud of.

Cisneros encounters opposition from her own Chicano colleagues when she exposes taboo topics within the Chicano community.

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