桑德拉·希斯内罗丝身世

桑德拉·希斯内罗丝身世

桑德拉·希斯内罗丝
　　个人资料
　　桑德拉·希斯内罗丝，1954年生，当代美国著名女诗人，墨西哥裔，30岁时凭借《芒果街上的小屋》一书成名。另著有短篇故事集《喊女溪及其他》和诗集若干。
　　名言
　　她写在《芒果街上的小屋》 的话：
　　我写的不单是美国的事情，也是你们的。我肯定，在中国，也有这样一条芒果街，陌生人去到那里时，会感到一种“恐外”氛围。尤其，在我们今天生活的世界中，如此多的群体在相互交融：城市居民与乡村居民、中产者与贫民、男人与女人。我们每天都在跨越疆域，甚至不用离开自己的家就这样做了。

sandra cisneros is an american writer best known for her acclaimed first novel the house on mango street and her subsequent short story collection woman hollering creek and other stories. her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. she is the recipient of numerous awards including a national endowment for the arts fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in chicana literature.

cisneros's early life provided many experiences she would later draw on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel isolated, and the constant migration of her family between mexico and the usa instilled in her the sense of "always straddling two countries ... but not belonging to either culture." cisneros's work deals with the formation of chicana identity, exploring the challenges of being caught between mexican and anglo-american cultures, facing the misogynist attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty. for her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, cisneros has achieved recognition far beyond chicano and latino communities, to the extent that the house on mango street has been translated worldwide and is taught in american classrooms as a coming-of-age novel.