Essays about: "The House on Mango Street"

Found 5 essays containing the words The House on Mango Street.

  1. 1. Barriers for Belonging in Fiction : The House on Mango Street as a Resource for Teaching

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Ekström; [2022]
    Keywords : identity; belonging; discrimination; Sandra Cisneros; Swedish curriculum; syllabus; upper secondary school;

    Abstract : Swedish curricula and syllabi constitute a richness of different considerations. Withinthis composition of principles, it is distinctly declared that all Swedish schools should counteract any inclination of discrimination and that intolerance must be answered with different measures, including knowledge (Skolverket, 2011b, 1). READ MORE

  2. 2. Creating a Space of Her Own : How Esperanza in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street Creates Her Own Space

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Mary Anderson Hörnfeldt; [2022]
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  3. 3. The Representation of Space in The House on Mango Street : A literary analysis with pedagogical implications for upper secondary students

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Mia Elander; [2020]
    Keywords : The House on Mango Street; Literary analysis; The Production of Space; Social Space; Henri Lefebvre.;

    Abstract : This essay explores the power dynamics embedded in the construction and perception of spatial environments in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. With the help of Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space as a socially constructed phenomenon and practice, this essay argues that the characters’ experience and perception of spaces in the novel including the house and the street are entangled with the dominating forces related to gender, identity and patriarchy in the surrounding society. READ MORE

  4. 4. "Defaming the honour of a woman was a sin" : A norm-critical gender study of Woman at Point Zero and The House on Mango Street

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Maria Yakob; [2020]
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    Abstract : Women are victims of male oppression during countless stages of their lives. Female oppression is rooted in the culture of the societies and that makes patriarchal structures ongoing until this day. Patriarchal structures and social norms make it utterly difficult for women to find ways of liberating themselves from the norms. READ MORE

  5. 5. The Hidden Value of House and Home : An analysis of the social and physical setting in The House on Mango Street

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Ivy Fredriksson; [2016]
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