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Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street: The Bildungsroman and Identity Formation

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
This article employs the psychosocial theories of Erik Erikson on identity development to negotiate the growth and learning process of Esperanza Cordero, the young adolescent heroine of Sandra Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street (1984).
Shadi S. Neimneh
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(Auto)traducir(se) en el espacio fronterizo: estrategias discursivas de autoras chicanas

Neophilologica, 2017
The objective of this analysis is to find out the main discursive strategies used by two acclaimed Chicana authors: Gloria Anzaldúa and Sandra Cisneros.
Iwona Kasperska
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Eviction, Home and the Spatiality of Shame

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Rooted in the scene of residential evictions, the present article examines the intersection of shame and eviction through intimate group interviews with family members in gentrifying Mexico City. It makes three contributions: highlighting the role of shame in facilitating evictions, presenting a spatial theory of shame and offering strategies ...
Jess Linz
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Making menudo, feeding the soul: towards a fat Chicana epistemology [PDF]

, 2013
People today have inherited historically rigid guidelines of what constitutes beauty and bodily acceptance, with multiple institutions normalizing a particular body type while simultaneously making the "other" out of those bodies that do not adhere to ...
Hernandez, Monica E
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Abject Bodies: Chicana Embodiment and Resistance in Ana Castillo’s Peel My Love Like an Onion and Denise Chávez’s Loving Pedro Infante

Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
This article examines Ana Castillo’s Peel My Love Like an Onion and Denise Chávez’s Loving Pedro Infante to argue that Chicana literature locates resistance to patriarchal control primarily in the body itself.
Duygu Beste Başer Özcan
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To Arrive Is to Begin: Benjamin Sáenz's Carry Me Like Water and the Pilgrimage of Origin in the Borderlands

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2001
This essay examines the "pilgrimage of origin" as presented in Benjamin Sáenz's novel Carry Me Like Water . As is the case with other ethnic literature, Carry Me Like Water teaches us that we must first go back before we can move forward and transform
Alberto López Pulido
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Negotiating Translanguaging in the Dual Language Bilingual Education Classroom: Supporting Latiné Students' Linguistic Intuitiveness

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 3, November/December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how one second‐grade dual‐language teacher supported translanguaging during interactive read‐alouds and literacy discussions while working in a district that emphasized the use of separate languages. Drawing on classroom observations, interviews, and field notes, we illustrate how the teacher encouraged students to use ...
Gilberto P. Lara, María G. Leija
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Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Heritage Celebration (2005 Fall) [PDF]

, 2005
University of Minnesota Duluth. Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Learning Resource Center. (2005). Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Heritage Celebration (2005 Fall).
University of Minnesota Duluth. Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Learning Resource Center
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Strategic (De)racing: Middle‐Class Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Visibility in the Business of Beauty in Canada

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 2560-2579, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how middle‐class women beauty entrepreneurs negotiate belonging at the intersection of gender, race, and class. Building on in‐depth qualitative interviews with women owners of Canadian beauty brands as well as analysis of social media content created by these local stores, I highlight racial and political structures ...
Sepideh Borzoo
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.
Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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