第一篇：書評——芒果街的小屋

芒果街的小屋

讀《芒果街的小屋》時，總有種相見恨晚的感覺，這本曾被不少人追捧的書，的確蠻適合現在人的節奏的，切的碎碎的時間碎片里，拈一口，即時消化，給人的則是愉悅的感受。它由幾十個短篇組成，語言清澈如流水，點綴著零落的韻腳和新奇的譬喻，如一首首長歌短調，各自成韻，又彼此鉤連，匯聚出一個清晰的世界。全書的敘述中心是居住在芝加哥拉美移民社區芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎，女孩生就對弱的同情心和對美的感覺力，她用清澈的眼打量周圍的世界，用美麗稚嫩的語言講述成長、滄桑、生命的美好與不易和年輕的熱望與夢想，夢想有一所自己的房子，夢想在寫作中追尋自我，獲得自由和幫助別人的能力。寫這本書的作者，文字功夫是舉重若輕的那個路數，用很少的字，表達一個很漫漶的意思。很多童話文字，還有金子美鈴童謠,似乎也是這個路子，但無可否認的是，這種文字總是在平淡之中散發著無與倫比的魅力，更能打動我們的內心。

我不知道是該稱它為一本日記還是應該說它是一本童話，也不知道這樣一本書是寫給哪個年齡段的人的，小女孩的故事看起來瑣瑣碎碎、平淡無奇，卻有一種奇妙的力量讓人在任何時候任何場所都會不由自主地想象著那樣一個遙遠的地方，一個飽滿的透明的女孩，一段細微的敏感的多彩時光，它涂抹著麥芒和番薯的顏色，與童年和故鄉相連。

我喜歡這些小女孩的故事，這本書里的埃斯佩朗莎也是，宮崎駿電影中的小主角們也是，在她們的故事里，一種時光的印記在當中穿插出淡淡的水印，有一些片斷像是在夏日午后吹起的微涼的風，翻動日記本中那些稚嫩的筆記。這樣一本細致的小日記，你翻動它的時候仿佛都能看見漆黑長發下埃斯佩朗莎明亮的大眼睛，像小野貓一樣，帶著清澈的倔強和牛奶一般稚嫩的氣息，她告訴你她今天的小收獲、小煩惱、小心事，她告訴你她多么想要一所屬于她自己的大的房子，告訴你她和蕾妮的小冒險，告訴你很多很多似曾相識的故事。它就像熟透的芒果一般，飽滿多汁，任何輕微的碰撞都會留下印跡。

讀這本書時總會想起曾經一起嬉鬧的光陰，在那個高高的泡桐樹下，撿一種尖尖的花；在爺爺那個昏暗的小屋子里，折很多的紙船；跑很遠的地方，吃一些稀奇古怪的小零食……每一個女孩都曾經是埃斯佩朗莎，每一個男孩身邊都有埃斯佩朗莎。那個在你身邊躲躲藏藏的女孩，不知道什么時候躲進了你的心里，在那些河水寧靜陽光細膩的日子里，她偶爾也會在出來曬曬頭發曬曬腳丫。

她不是小王子，也不是彼得潘，她自然而真實，觸及到每一個人柔軟的心，當你跟著她進入她的世界之后，你會發現，這樣一本書，原是自己遺忘的兒時的日記本。那些可愛的文字，穿越時空引鳴你的心靈之鐘，然后歸于沉寂，安靜地駐扎下來。設想許多年后，靜靜回憶的你，還能念出書里的句子：“你永遠不能擁有太多的天空。你可以再天空下睡去，醒來又沉醉。在你憂傷的時候，天空會給你安慰。可是憂傷太多，天空不夠。蝴蝶也不夠，花兒也不夠。大多數美的東西都不夠。于是，我們取我們所能取，好好地享用。

第二篇：芒果街的小屋（范文）

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming-of-age classics.Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty.Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

第三篇：芒果街 論文

分析《芒果街上的小屋》埃斯佩朗莎缺失的文化身份下的女性意識

作者：朱雯

摘要：論文通過運用文化批評理論分析“奇卡納”女性在追尋身份過程中的困境，探討族裔文化與主流文化的分離與滲透，少數族裔與白人主流的排斥與融合，“奇卡納”的雙重邊緣地位以及一些“奇卡納”社會地位的提高。本文以女主人公埃斯佩浪莎為主線，探討埃斯佩浪莎走出芒果街，實現自我價值的原因并揭露主流社會與少數族裔之間的沖突與矛盾，分析“奇卡納”所遭遇的自我身份構建與文化身份問題，力圖找到在美國這個種族問題嚴重，民族眾多的社會中面對強勢文化沖擊的少數族裔女性追尋身份，實現文化認同的方法與途徑。

關鍵詞：奇卡納 女性意識 缺失的文化身份

The Analysis of Esperanza’s Female Consciousness with Absent

Cultural Identity in The House on Mango Street

Zhu Wen

Abstract: Drawing upon the theories of cultural criticism，the thesis analyzes the dilemma of Chicanas in the process of pursuing identity，and discusses the separation and permeation of ethnic culture and mainstream culture，the rejection and assimilation between the ethnic minorities and the dominant whites，and the double marginalized position of Chicanas as well as the up grading of social status of some Chicanas focusing on the analysis of the protagonist Esperanza，the thesis tries to explore how Esperanza succeeds in leaving Mango Street，identifying herself with the mainstream society and realizing self-value.Key words :Chicanafemale consciousnesscultural identity

Sandra Cisneros is most famous for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street which displays the existence state of the Mexican immigrant group in the United States and which is a comprehensive representation of Chicanas’ search for identity.It became an immediate success and met with various criticism which is either directed toward such ideological issues as ethnicity，female identity ,cross-cultural presentation，or toward such formalistic issues as genre and postmodern thinkingChieanas who are“not white and not black，but brown” feel confused about their identity.Facing two cultures，they can’t integrate into either.Without a sense of belonging，they don’t know how to define themselves.The Loss of Cultural Identity

The House on Mango Street mainly depicts the position and living situation of Mexicanoppressed society-negating patriarchy and locating the vocation of “ feminine writing”in her own house as her true identity.The writer puts forward the view tllat Esperanza wants to find her true identity by the power of language and

“ feminine writing” which is a weapon to combat against the unjust patriarchy and frnally obtains the liberation.1.1 The poor life of Mexican-Americans

Sandra Cisneros says the stories，in a sense，are a girl's diary.Little narrator Esperanza just writes down a list of what she sees every day.Here is an example.“I want a house on a hill like the ones with the gardens where Papa works.We go on Sundays, Papa's day off.I used to go.I don't anymore.You don't like to go out with us, Papa says.Getting too old? Getting too stuck-up, says Nenny.I don't tell them I am ashamed--all of us staring out the window like the hungry.I am tired of looking at what we can't have.When we win the lottery...Mama begins, and then I stop listening.”

People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth.They don't look down at all except to be content to live on hills.They have nothing to do with last week's garbage or fear of rats.Night comes.Nothing wakes them but the wind.1.2 The Discrimination of Minority Group On one hand，the ethnic minorities should search for a new“self”through appropriate cultural identifying，integrate into the mainstream society and win spiritual freedom by making compromises between self and community and improving their social position through education.On the other hand，in order to promote national integration，American society should encourage communication between different races，eliminate racial discrimination and ethnic segregation，and develop a new ethnic culture to promote the inter-subjectivity between the mainstream culture and the ethnic culture.1.3 The Suppression to Female in the Patriarchy Culture

In the multi-ethnic society of the United States，the whites are privileged for their color without any sense that most people suffer from discrimination for their color，let alone getting benefit from their position.In Teaching The House on Mango Street:Engaging Race，Class and Gender in a White Classroom，Ryan(2002)has used Louise Rosenblatt’s reading theories，Maria Lugones’s Political theories，and strategies of engaged pedagogy to discuss ways in which white，privileged teachers can encourage white，privileged students to recognize themselves as raced，classed and gendered so that they can begin to think more fully about the reasons of their cultural dominance and have a sense to question the distances between their lives of privilege and the characteres Peranza’s life of marginalization.In order to offer a deeper，interdisciplinary approach to Cisneros' The House on Mango Street，Mcleod(2002)has carefully

analyzed

Cisncros’

growing

background.With an effort to presenting Chicanas’ identity crisis，Mcleod has given a glimpse into the history of Mexican Ameriean’ s immigration.The house one lives can represent one ' s identity or status in the society.The house Esperanza ' s family lives on Mango Street is small and shabby which Esperanza is ashamed of.She regards the house as a house she lives in not her real home which also indicates that she has no sense of place and no sense of satisfied identity.At first she is just aware of it, but later she begins to search for her re al identity in her deep heart.Before her Aunt Lupe dies, Esperanza reads her poems and her aunt encourages her to keep writing which can make her free.Esperanza realizes education really counts from her mother who is capable and can speak two languages, sing an opera, and so on but quits school just under the pretext of no nice

clothes.This is one reason why she chooses to pursue a house of her own and start writing.Her thought echoes the view of Cixous, a French feminist critic, that “ he hopes feminine writing can lead women to be awaked and eventually liberated ”Conflict between dream and reality with absent cutural identity

Drawing upon the theories of cultural criticism，the thesis analyses the dilemma of Chicanas in the process of pursuing identity，and discusses the separation and permeation of ethnic culture and mainstream culture，the rejection and assimilation between the ethnic minorities and the dominant whites，and the double marginalized position of Chicanas as well as the up grading of social status of some Chicanas focusing on the analysis of the protagonist Esperanza，the thesis tries to explore how Esperanza succeeds in leaving Mango Street，identifying herself with the mainstream society and realizing self-value.With a discussion of the conflicts and contradictions between the mainstream society and the ethnic minorities，the thesis intends to analyse the problems of self-identity construction and cultural identity and aims at finding ways to approach for cultural identity for ethnic minorities who are facing the shock of dominant culture and searching for identity in the multi-ethnic society ofthe United States.2.1 House in Mind and Reality

The teenager girl has her own choice of words.In the first chapter，Esperanza forms a sharp contrast of the real house on Mango Street and their anticipation from parents' description.Look at the following excerpt,for instance:

“They always told us that one day we would move into a house,a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have

to move each year.And our house would have running water and pipes that worked.And inside it would have real stairs, nor hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses in TV.And we'd have a basement and at least three washrooms so when we took a bath we wouldn't have to tell everybody.Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence.This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed.”

But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all.It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath.Bricks are crumbling in places,and the front door is so swollen that you have to push hard to get in.There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb.Out back is a small garage between the two buildings on either side.There are stairs in our house, but they're ordinary hallway stairs,and the house has only one washroom.Everybody has to share a bedroom-Mama and Papa,Carlos and Kiki,me and Nenny.2.2 Love in Mind and Reality

Under the rule of patriarchy on Mango Street, women are observed as the “ object” and dominated and oppressed by father or husband in the family.Sally's father is very strict with Sally and other sisters, thinking that to be beautiful is trouble and not allowing them to So out or dance.They are bounded in the cage of house like birds deprived of freedom.All Sally wants is to love, which “ no one would call that crazy”,but the patriarchy deprives her of opportunities to love, which is unfair.2.3 Female's Circumstances in Mind and Reality

Rafaela is locked young indoors, leaning out of the window and getting old because her husband fears that she will run away.On Tuesday Rafaela would ask the kids buy her coconut and papaya juice sweeter than the bitter empty room.Rafaela is a passive “ angel” in house.She is subordinated and oppressed by her husband and sentenced to be life-long prisoner and a victim of the

patriarchy.It is a pity that she just dreams to be locked in a better cage where she can keep coconut or papaya juice on “ a silver string”rather than clothesline.Sally escapes from her abusive father by marrying a marshmallow salesman.But her situation is worse after marriage with rulingsignificant other“ but a valuable person having the same equal rights and privileges as men do.Vargas and Minerva are strong and honored by their sense of responsibility to feed their children.If they are weak, where are the strong men? These brave women are also a negation of the patriarchy.Most of the other females in her neighborhood spend their lives isolated and trapped.At first Esperanza has pity on these women situation.But as she grows, Esperanza is not comfortable with the patriarchy.Sally escapes from her abusive father by marrying a marshmallow salesman.But her situation is worse after marriage with ruling-class husband at the top and herself in the colonized world at the bottom.Esperanza rejects Sally's practice of depending on her husband and allowing her husband to decide her fate.Thus the traumatic experiences and observations of other girls in her neighborhood which is the second reason make her determined to”say goodbye“to her impoverished Latino neighborhood.What she wants is a house of her own”Not a flat.Not an apartment in back.Not a man's house.Not a daddy's.A house all my own.With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias.My books and my stories.My two shoes waiting beside the bed.Nobody to shake a stick at Nobody's garbage to pick up after.Only a house quite as snow,a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem“"Beavoir insists that women see themselves as autonomous beings.Women, she maintains.must reject the societal construct that men are the subject or the absolute and that women are the Other.Embedded in this false assumption is the

supposition that males have power and define cultural terms and roles.Accordingly, women must define themselves outside the present social construct and reject being labeled as the Other”(Bressler 1999,182).“One day I will pack my bags of books and paper.One day I will say goodbye to Mango.I am too strong for her to keep me here forever.One day I will go away.”

Therefore, Esperanza is hopeful and optimistic to find her true identity by leaving and realizes that her leaving Mango Street is not to escape but to return for those who cannot.This is women's unfulfilled responsibility to each other and it coneys the important concept of women's mutual help.Conclusion

Through the above analysis, the House on Mango Street represents the voice of Chicano women who are not infenors to men but are capable, strong, hard-working and optimistic and their innate artistic talents can be expressed by their pen in their own house.This is the women's true identity.Emma Goldman says that“History tells us that every oppressed class gained true liberation from its masters through its own efforts.It is necessary that woman learn that lesson, that she realizes that her freedom will reach as far as her power to achieve her freedom reaches.Thus in order to gain true liberation, women should help each other which is”the spirit of Cisneros".

第四篇：《芒果街上的小屋》讀后感

我不知道是該稱它為一本日記還是應該說它是一本童話?！睹⒐稚系男∥荨肪褪沁@么一本優美純凈的小書。它由幾十個短篇組成，一個短篇講述一個人、一件事、一個夢想、幾朵云，幾棵樹、幾種感覺，語言清澈如流水，點綴著零落的韻腳和新奇的譬喻，如一首首長歌短調，各自成韻，又彼此鉤連，匯聚出一個清晰世界，各樣雜沓人生。所有的講述都歸于一個敘述中心：居住在芝加哥拉美移民社區芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎（埃斯佩朗莎，是西班牙語里的希望）。生就對弱的同情心和對美的感覺力，她用清澈的眼打量周圍的世界，用美麗稚嫩的語言講述成長，講述滄桑，講述生命的美好與不易，講述年輕的熱望和夢想，夢想著有一所自己的房子，夢想著在寫作中追尋自我，獲得自由和幫助別人的能力。我不知道這樣一本書是寫給哪個年齡段的人的，小女孩的故事看起來瑣瑣碎碎、平淡無奇，卻有一種奇妙的力量讓人在任何時候任何場所都會不由自主地想象著那樣一個遙遠的地方，一個飽滿的透明的女孩，一段細微的敏感的多彩時光。我喜歡這些小女孩的故事，這本書里的埃斯佩朗莎也是，宮崎駿電影中的小主角們也是，在她們的故事里，一種時光的印記在當中穿插出淡淡的水印，有一些片斷像是在夏日午后吹起的微涼的風，翻動日記本中那些稚嫩的筆記。

這樣一本細致的小日記，你翻動它的時候仿佛都能看見漆黑長發下埃斯佩朗莎明亮的大眼睛，像小野貓一樣，帶著清澈的倔強和牛奶一般稚嫩的氣息，她告訴你她今天的小收獲、小煩惱、小心事，她告訴你她多么想要一所屬于她自己的大的房子，告訴你她和蕾妮的小冒險，告訴你很多很多似曾相識的故事。這些故事讓我想起跟兒時伙伴曾經一起嬉鬧的光陰，在那棵古老的榕樹下撿一種傳說中的四葉草；在我們那些昏暗的破舊小屋子里，折很多的紙船玩很多的娃娃；跑很遠的地方，吃一些稀奇古怪的小零食；和她們一起在河邊曬太陽在、在田野里玩泥巴。每一個女孩都曾經是埃斯佩朗莎，每一個女孩身邊都有埃斯佩朗莎。那個在你身邊躲躲藏藏的埃斯佩朗莎，不知道什么時候躲進了你的心里，在那些河水寧靜陽光細膩的日子里，她偶爾也會在出來曬曬頭發曬曬腳丫。她不是小王子，也不是彼得潘，她自然而真實，觸及到每一個人柔軟的心，當你跟著她進入她的世界之后，你會發現，這樣一本書，原來是自己遺忘的兒時的日記本。

第五篇：《芒果街上的小屋》讀后感

有夢想就有希望

——我讀《芒果街上的小屋》

《芒果街上的小屋》是美國當代著名女詩人，墨西哥裔作家桑德拉·希斯內羅絲的成名作。自1984年出版以來，全球銷量近六百萬冊，有十余種譯本及有聲讀本面世。小說之所以有這么大的影響，在于它告訴人們一個樸素的道理：任何時候，都不要放棄生活的夢想——有夢想就有希望。

小說的主人公叫埃斯佩朗莎，這個名字在英語里的意思就是“希望”，可見作者是想通過這一人物形象的塑造，表達她對生活的夢想與希望。埃斯佩朗莎生活在美國芝加哥拉丁市區的芒果街，其祖輩曾是墨西哥移民。自然，在這個倍受種族歧視的社會，埃斯佩朗莎一家只能生活在貧民區，全家六口人擠在一個“窗戶小得讓你覺得它們像是在屏著呼吸”、“每個人都要和別人合用一間臥房”的房子里。于是，能擁有“一所真正的大屋，永遠屬于我們，那樣我們就不用每年搬家了”的渴望，成了埃斯佩朗莎的夢想。

然而，夢想的實現是需要條件的。

首先是長大。因為只有長大，你才有能力去實現自己的夢想。然而，對于埃斯佩朗莎來說，成長的過程是那樣的艱辛，就連她的生辰都被認為不吉利，她想自帶午飯到學校餐廳吃竟得不到老師的許可，她第一次去圖片社打工戰戰兢兢地連坐下來都不敢??成長的滄桑，生活的酸、甜、苦、辣，讓她在委屈時學會了忍耐，在受挫時學會了堅強。正如小說中寫的那樣：“我已經開始了我自己的沉默的戰爭。簡單。堅定。我是那個像男人一樣離開餐桌的人，不把椅子擺正來，也不抬起碗筷來?！?/p>

其次是敢于追求。對于一個生活異邦底層的窮孩子來說，實現夢想需要付出更大的努力。很多的時候，沒有人會幫你，只有你自己。小說在結尾部分，寫埃斯佩朗莎決心走出芒果街，就是試圖通過自己的努力，到廣闊的社會里歷練，以實現自己的夢想，為了自己，也為了他人。正如小說寫的那樣：“有一天我會對芒果說再見。我強大得她沒法永遠留住我。有一天我會離開?！薄拔译x開是為了回來。為了那些我留在身后的人。為了那些無法出去的人?！睆倪@里我們可以看到，埃斯佩朗莎不僅是真的長大了，而且她的思想也變得成熟了，他的追求不僅是為了自己，更是為了“那些無法出去的人”。人物的思想境界走向了崇高，小說的主旨得到升華，其實，在我們每個人的心里，都有一條看不見的芒果街，我們都曾在或正在那里居住，掙扎，努力，也都在追尋一所真正屬于自己的夢想的“房子”。那么，我們就應該像埃斯佩朗莎那樣，在委屈時學會忍耐，在受挫時學會堅強，在堅強中不停成長壯大。

小說形象地告訴我們：夢想是人前行和創造的動力，沒有夢想，就沒有希望。最后讓我們再來聆聽一下埃斯佩朗莎發自心靈的吶喊：“我想成為 / 海里的浪，風中的云，/ 但我還只是小小的我。/ 有一天我要 / 跳出自己的身軀??”