Sandra Cisneros

This page at Voices From the Gaps has an excerpt from The House on Mango Street, a biography, bibliographies, links, and some photos.

ClassicNote.com has put up this biography of Cisneros with a photo and some links. How does it differ from the information you found above?

This interview with Cisneros from the collection Interviews withWriters of the Post-Colonial World contains some of her insights about incorporating Spanish into her work.

Read this teacher's guide about Cisneros, where you'll find links organized into handy categories like bibliography, lesson plans, and ERIC resources. What did you learn about the author from the guide?

The Internet School Library Media Center at James Madison University has provided this hyperlinked bibliography of Cisneros's works.

Interested in putting Sandra Cisneros into a cultural context? These notes discuss the author and other Latina writers, including Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, and Laura Esquivel.

Another research approach: The homepage of HispanicOnline.com will help you understand Cisneros's work in the context of Hispanic/American culture.

Yet another approach: This is the start page of the "Chicana/Chicano Studies Pages" at the University of California, Davis. There, you'll find links to things like a Chicano/Latino electronic network, Chicano studies research, and more.

Let's switch gears for a second. Here are some feminism and women's literature links. How can this information help you in your writing about Cisneros? What connections can you make to these things and what you've learned from your reading?