一所自己的房子:阶级、族裔和女性身份的追寻——评希斯内罗丝的《芒果街上的小屋》

A House of One's Own:The Pursuit of Class,Racial and Gender Identity On Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

美国当代墨西哥裔女作家桑德拉.希斯内罗丝的代表作《芒果街上的小屋》描述了墨西哥移民在美国辛酸的奋斗史。小说以一家移民后代的女儿埃斯佩朗莎.科德罗为主人公,讲述了她的成长经历,反映女主人公埃斯佩朗莎以及其她少数族裔女性在美国社会的弱势地位以及在家庭受男性压迫的现实,折射出以埃斯佩朗莎为代表的墨西哥裔女性对象征阶级、种族和性别平等的一所完全属于自己的房子不懈追寻的心声。

The House on Mango Street,the masterpiece of Sandra Cisneros,a modern Chicana writer in the United States,records a struggling history of Mexican immigrants in America.The novel depicts the growth of the female protagonist Esperansa,reflecting Esperansa’s and other Mexican women’s marginal status in American society and their subordinate reality from their fathers or husbands,through which the work lays bare those Mexican women’s physical and spiritual pursuit of equality of class,racial and gender identity.