Includes bibliographical references and index.

On The house on Mango Street / Mar�ia Herrera-Sobek -- Biography of Sandra Cisneros / Gloria A. Duarte-Valverde -- The Paris review perspective / Chlo�e Schama for The Paris review -- Critical contexts -- Midwest Ra�ices: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Amelia Mar�ia de la Luz Montes -- The critical reception of The house on Mango Street / Amy Sickels -- On the "simplicity" of Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street / Felicia J. Cruz -- Stories from the "hem of life": contesting marginality in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Catherine Leen -- Critical readings -- The "dual"-ing images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Leslie Petty -- Memories of girlhood: Chicana lesbian fictions / Catri�ona Rueda Esquibel -- Of woman bondage: the eroticism of feet in The house on Mango Street / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- Sandra Cisneros: border crossings and beyond / Robin Ganz -- "This bridge we call home": crossing and bridging spaces in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Stella Bolaki -- Crossing the borders of genre: revisions of the bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Maria Karafilis -- The house on Mango Street: a space of her own / Annie O. Eysturoy -- Coming of age in the curriculum: The house on Mango Street and Bless me, Ultima as representative texts / Delia Poey -- Homeplaces and spaces of their own / Maria-Ant�onia Oliver-Rotger -- More room of her own: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Jacqueline Doyle -- Nature despoiled and artificial: Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / James R. Giles -- Remembering always to come back: the child's wished-for escape and the adult's self- empowered return in Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street / Reuben Sanchez.