成长小说视域下的《芒果街上的小屋》

An Analysis of The House on Mango Street from the Perspective of Bildungsroman

美国当代著名的墨西哥裔女性作家桑德拉·希斯内罗丝的代表作《芒果街上的小屋》通过描绘拉美移民社区芒果街上的生活图景,展现了美国墨西哥裔移民的艰难生活与身份困境,反映了墨美女性的边缘地位,更凸显了女主人公埃斯佩朗莎的成长。本文从成长小说的视角出发,探讨主人公从懵懂女孩到成熟女性的蜕变以及该蜕变的意义所在。

The famous female Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros'representative work,The House on Mango Street depicts immigrants'lives on Mexican American's community Mango Street,shows Mexican Americans'hardships of life and their dilemmas of seeking identity as well as the marginalization that Mexican women are confronted with.Meanwhile,it also emphasizes the protagonist,Esperanza's growth.Based on that,the paper is to analyze Esperanza's changes from an innocent girl into a mature woman through the prism of Bildungsroman and further probe into the significance of this metamorphosis.