Chicano

Sandra Cisneros and the Cultural Construction of Latin-American Womanhood

Sandra Cisneros stands as one of the most formative Chicana writers of her generation. She has inspired many other Chicano novelists, poets, and essayists because of the critical and popular success of her first novel, The House on Mango Street. However, despite the book's attempt to give validity to a more positive view of Latin American culture, as it exists in the United States, Cisneros' novel and her subsequent works have not stinted in their criticism of certain aspects of Hispanic life and reality, such as the inequality between the sexes.

Cisneros is an author, and he first novel attempted to give a certain beauty and dramatic weight to the innocent perspective of a young, Latina girl. The work 'argued' that young Latina life was interesting and a culturally significant topic for modern fiction. However, Cisneros is also quite critical...
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