Cisneross first book was Bad Boys (1980), a volume of poetry.She gained international attention with her first book of fiction, The House on Mango Street (1983), written in a defiant youthful voice that reflected her own memories of a girlhood spent trying to be a creative writer in an antagonistic environment.The childrens book Hairs Pelitos (1994) uses the differing hair textures within a single family to explore issues of human diversity.
The volume was based on an episode related in The House on Mango Street and was told in both Spanish and English. Her collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), contains tales of beleaguered girls and women who nonetheless feel that they have power over their destinies. She returned to long fiction with Caramelo; o, puro cuento (2002), a semiautobiographical work that echoes her own peripatetic childhood in a large family. Have You Seen Marie (2012) concerns the efforts of a middle-aged woman to help her friend find a lost cat while meditating on her mothers death. The tale, which mirrored similar experiences in Cisneross own life, was illustrated with images by the artist Ester Hernandez. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (2015) is a wide-ranging memoir. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a half, America was merely a group of colonies scattered.
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