The critical locus of this essay explores a binding element in all expatriate and immigrant literatures -the national displacement of the protagonist- in order to elucidate the manner in which ethic, linguistic, and social otherness affect the bilateral exchanges between immigrant and national (as well as immigrant-immigrant). As a way of breaking the constructed roles, she implies awareness, remedy, change, and action for the women. Cisneros reflects the constructed women images in the microcosmic Mango Street and her stand against this corrupted consideration. She sees that the women are treated like commodities and sexual objects and decides to react and find a new way to reconstruct the community. The protagonist of the novel, Esperanza becomes aware of these myths in her society by observing the wrongful behaviors of both women and men and realizes these fossilized values, which suppress the women both spatially and intellectually. In this sense, Cisneros's novel can be regarded as a narration of how the Chicano society is built upon mythical constructions of gender roles, the paralyzed consciousness of women. This article deals with Sandra Cisneros's (1954-) novel The House on Mango Street (1984) in terms of Chicana feminism, which emerged as a reaction against the male-dominated structure of Chicano Movement.
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