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Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)

LINKS

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/SandraCisneros.html

This link connects you to an exhibit of Sandra Cisneros hosted by Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color. Here you will find a critical biography, bibliographic information, and other online links.

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=766

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on Sandra Cisneros including a biography, bibliographic information, and additional links.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cisneros/cisneros.htm

This link connects you to the Modern American Poetry site, edited by Professor Cary Nelson at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Here you will find an exhibit of biographical criticism, bibliographic information, and external links on Sandra Cisneros.

BIOGRAPHY

Born to a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican father, Sandra Cisneros spent her early life between moves from Mexico City to Chicago. When she studied creative writing as a college student in 1974, she became an active writer. Following her degree earned from Chicago's Loyola University, Cisneros earned an M. A. from the creative writing program at the University of Iowa. During the late 1970s, she worked as a teacher in the Chicago barrio where she found ample material for her writing. Cisneros's rootedness in the Chicano community is reflected in her first volume of poetry Bad Boys (1980), published in a series edited by the Chicano writer Gary Soto. Her first published book of fiction, The House on Mango Street (1983) mixed her gift for poetic expression with fictional forms depicting, she has said, "those ghosts inside that haunt me, that will not let me sleep." Two years later, her first book won the Before Columbus American Book Award, followed in 1987 by the publication of her first volume of verse, the widely acclaimed My Wicked Wicked Ways. In addition, Cisneros has continued to balance her fictional and poetic forms in publishing Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) and Loose Woman: Poems (1994).

SECONDARY SOURCES

Cisneros, Sandra. "The Monkey Garden." Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories. Ed. Harold Augenbraum. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1993.

Cruz, Felicia J. "On the 'Simplicity' of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street." Modern Fiction Studies. 47(4): 910-46.

Curiel, Barbara Brinson. "The General's Pants: A Chicana Feminist (Re)Vision of the Mexican Revolution in Sandra Cisneros's 'Eyes of Zapata.'" Western American Literature. 35(4): 403-27.

Kuribayashi, Tomoko. "The Chicana girl writes her way in and out: space and bilingualism in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street." Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing. Eds. Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Madsen, Deborah L. Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

Perles Rochel, Juan Antonio. "Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street as a 'Bildungsroman.'" Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1998. 223-32.

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