Research Article

Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Number: Ö8 November 21, 2020
  • Aslınur Bayal Bayal *
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Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Abstract

This paper aims to suggest how Chicanas in The House on Mango Street and in Borderland/La Frontera: New Mestiza construct their own identity on the physical and psychological borderland between Mexico and The States segregating and separating individuals because of language, culture, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class. How they achieve their self-fulfillment at the end of their odyssey is also presented in this paper. The House on Mango Street and Borderlands/La Frontera New Mestiza are the epitomes of border writing dwelling on the tumult and challenges of physical and psychological borderland between the States and Mexico and explaining the social and economic conditions of the subjects. Borderland dwellers experience illegal migration, economic disparity, social and financial unrest, sense of displacement and frustration. They have hybrid identities and use hybrid language of English and Spanish. This paper discusses male oppression and domestication, American ideological dominance over Mexico and a quest for a dignified life in both novels. Therefore, this study scrutinizes the lives and the motives of the characters in The House on Mango Street from the perspective of its female protagonist, Esperenza who is on the threshold of womanhood and the identity confusion of protagonist writer, Gloria Anzaldua herself in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.

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References

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Aslınur Bayal Bayal * This is me
0000-0002-4682-2400
Türkiye

Publication Date

November 21, 2020

Submission Date

September 13, 2020

Acceptance Date

November 20, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Number: Ö8

APA
Bayal, A. B. (2020). Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, Ö8, 705-719. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.822504
AMA
1.Bayal AB. Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. RumeliDE. 2020;(Ö8):705-719. doi:10.29000/rumelide.822504
Chicago
Bayal, Aslınur Bayal. 2020. “Chicana Experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. Ö8: 705-19. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.822504.
EndNote
Bayal AB (November 1, 2020) Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi Ö8 705–719.
IEEE
[1]A. B. Bayal, “Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza”, RumeliDE, no. Ö8, pp. 705–719, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.29000/rumelide.822504.
ISNAD
Bayal, Aslınur Bayal. “Chicana Experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. Ö8 (November 1, 2020): 705-719. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.822504.
JAMA
1.Bayal AB. Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. RumeliDE. 2020;:705–719.
MLA
Bayal, Aslınur Bayal. “Chicana Experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. Ö8, Nov. 2020, pp. 705-19, doi:10.29000/rumelide.822504.
Vancouver
1.Aslınur Bayal Bayal. Chicana experience on Borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. RumeliDE. 2020 Nov. 1;(Ö8):705-19. doi:10.29000/rumelide.822504