The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street: Genre 1 key example

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Explanation and Analysis:

Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street is a fictional coming-of-age story, also known as a bildungsroman. It belongs to the specific sub-genre of Chicano literature as a novel that speaks to the Mexican American experience in particular. Cisneros, as a Mexican American woman who lived in Chicago for many years, draws on her personal experience in authoring the novel. However, The House on Mango Street is not a memoir or otherwise autobiographical: it is a work of fiction.