The Quest for Feminine Identity in Sandra Cisneros’ The House On Mango Street 1984
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2021-06
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UNIVERSITY OF MOHAMED BOUDIAF
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This dissertation tends to capture the struggles of the protagonist Esperanza Cordero and
other women in Mango Street, who failed to shape their identities in Sandra Cisneros’s The
House On Mango Street. This examination aims to analyze the issue of The Quest for Feminine
Identity, through the feminist point of view by Simone de Beauvoir in her famous book The
Second Sex, in addition to the psychosocial approach through Erik Erikson’s development
stages theory, with the help of other tenets such as Psycho-Feminism, Gender Roles,
Patriarchal Oppression, and Ethnic Identity. The first chapter is about historical backgrounds
and theoretical framework. The second chapter is for the analysis of the issue of identity
formation and its boundaries. As a result, we discover that Esperanza changes the traditional
patterns of male domination through challenging her community beliefs, by breaking the
boundaries and creating her own identity through writing that allows her to leave Mango Street
mentally despite she failed to escape it physically
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Keywords: Patriarchy, Oppression, Gender roles, Feminine identity.