The House on Mango Street and "Woman Hollering Creek" and Other Stories have enjoyed wide critical and popular favor, and deservedly so. Engagingly readable, their appeal is immediate, yet they open up areas of experience new to many U.S. readers. Sandra Cisneros' fictional "voice" and her feminism are often praised, yet there are many voices in her fiction — not all of them female — and each is wholly individual, defining a character we recognize as a unique human being, often in only a few sentences. Academic critics point out mythic connections in Cisneros' stories, yet in each of them — whether the setting is Chicago in the 1960s, 1980s San Antonio, or early-twentieth-century Mexico — the real world is foremost, crowding into our senses by way of language that is concrete and precise.
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