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The Symbolic Meaning of House in
The House on Mango Street
A Thesis
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for BA to the Faculty of Foreign Languages
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Abstract
As a classic in contemporary American ethnic literature,the novel The House On the Mango Street has brought Sandra Cisneros international House on Mango Street records the struggling history of Mexican immigrants in the life of immigrants, the novel discloses the dilemma of munities in American society from the perspective of a little female protagonist novel also portrays the growth of Esperansa,reflecting Esperansa’s and other Mexican women’s marginal status in American society and their subordinate reality from their fathers or oppression by their husbands after marriage,through which the work lays bare those Mexican women’s physical and spiritual pursuit of social equality,racial and gender identity.
This thesis will analyze Esperansa’s narrating of her ordinary life to explore the symbolic meaning of “house” in The House on Mango Street. It consists of five parts. Chapter One introduces the genre and themes of the House on Mango Street. Chapter Two defines the meaning of the house. Chapter Three discusses about how people on Mango Street pursue class equality. It also talks about the birth of the novel. In Chapter Four, the lower-class Latinos fight for equal racial identity. Chapter Five introduces the male chauvinism and how the women try to win an equal gender status.
Keywords:House;Pursue ;Class Identity; Racial Identity; Gender Identity
内容摘要
作为美国当代族裔文学经典之作,小说《芒果街上的小屋》为美国女作家桑德拉·希斯内罗丝赢得国际声誉。《芒果街上的小屋》描述了墨西哥移民在美国辛酸的奋斗史。小说从主人公----一个小女孩埃斯佩朗莎·科德罗的视角书写芒果街的移民生活,尤其是社区中少数族裔女性在夹缝中的生存状态,呈现美国社会少数族裔社区的困境。小说讲述了主人公埃斯佩朗莎·科德罗的成长经历,反映埃斯佩朗莎以及其它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。
本论文通过分析主人公埃斯佩朗莎·科德罗讲述她的日常生活来探讨房子在《芒果街上的小屋》一书中的象征意义。本文包括五个部分:第一章介绍该小说的流派和主题。第二章讨论了房子的定义。第三章介绍了在芒果街上的人是如何追求阶级的平等,包括介绍这部小说