Sandra Cisneros un Mango Sokağı ndaki Ev Adlı Romanında kadın figürleri ve ev kavramı

Sandra Cisneros Amerikan ve Latin edebiyat dünyasının önemli yazarlarından biridir. Ünlü eserlerinden biri olan Mango Sokağı ndaki Ev adlı romanında Esparanza adlı küçük bir kız çocuğunun gözüyle çevreyi ve hayatı tanımasını anlatır. Ancak yaşadığı çevre ve evler karakterlerle aynı kaderi paylaşmaktadır. Romanın başlangıcında yaşadığı bölgeye ait olmadığını düşünen başkahraman sonlara doğru gelişimini sürdürüp bölge kadınını eğitme ve onlara daha iyi bir gelecek hazırlama telaşına girmiştir.

The women figures and the notion of home' in Sandra Cisneros' the House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros is one of the most prominent writers of American and Hispanic literary world. Her successful novel titled The House on Mango Street recounts the life, the milieu and the compelling experiences encountered by women from the eyes of Esperanza, the protagonist of the novel. However, there are a large number of resemblances between houses and the women figures. Esperanza thinking that she does not belong to there at the beginning of the novel is determined to make the women on Mango Street educated and optimistic about their future.

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