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Escape from Mango Street

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Escape from Mango Street

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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In the years leading up to the publication of Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, a whole generation of experimental writers embraced the disjunctive possibilities of fragmented, episodic novels. After a half-century in which stream-of-consciousness had ruled the roost of avant-garde writing, a new metaphor had emerged. Instead of the stream, t…

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