Annotated Bibliography
Anzaldúa, Gloria. 1999.Borderlands La frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books
This book is an account of how Mexican ethnic culture and traditions are upheld for migrants into a new country. Anzaldúa specifically tells this from a woman's point of view and this book is an excellent example of the Latina Voice.
Cisneros, Sandra. 1991.The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books.
This book is the basis for this unit and is a semi autobiographical account by the author to tell the stories of the Latino neighborhood she grew up in and how she overcame adversity to find success in her own life.
The Departed. Dir. Martin Scosese. Warner Brothers, 2006.
I reference this movie because it definitely relates to the theme of how the community you are raised in develops you as a person.
Heredia, Juanita. 2009.Transnational Latina narratives in the twenty-first century: the politics of gender, race, and migrations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
I focused specifically on a section of this book relating to Cisneros. This discussion is more analytical of Cisneros' book Carmello; however it is very revealing about her writing style and motivations and was useful for my research.
Myers, Walter Dean. 2000.145th Street: short stories. New York: Delacorte Press
This is a supplemental book for this unit. I intend to use one of the stories from it to highlight the African American experience in Harlem to parallel The House on Mango Street.
Pollack, Harriet. 1995.Having our way: women rewriting tradition in twentieth-century America. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.
A book highlighting various experiences of women writers in the United States. One of the selected authors was Sandra Cisneros.
Savage, Charlie. "A Judge's View of Judging Is on the Record." New York Times, May 14, 2009.
This is a news analysis of the quotation I used in my unit from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggesting a wise Latina women with a wealth of experiences makes decisions others would not make.
Tokarczyk, Michelle M. 2008.Class definitions: on the lives and writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison. Selinsgrove [Pa.]: Susquehanna University Press.
I specifically examined the section on Sandra Cisneros. The book details her life experiences and the motivations behind many themes Cisneros touches on. I specifically worked with Tokarczyk's ideas on machismo.
Yep, Laurence. 1996.The lost garden. New York: Beech Tree Books.
This is a supplemental text for my unit. I plan to use a selection about Yep's Chinatown experience to parallel stories in The House on Mango Street from an Asian American perspective.
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