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1、密级：学校代码：10075分类号：学号：20100687文学硕士学位论文《芒果街上的小屋》：一部现代成长小说学位申请人：雷希指导教师：朱静副教授学位类别：文学硕士学科专业：英语语言文学专业授予单位：河北大学答辩日期：二○一三年五月ClassifiedIndex:CODE:10075U.D.C:NO:20100687ADissertationfortheDegreeofM.ArtsTheHouseonMangoStreet：AModernBildungsromanCandidate:LeiXiSupervisor:AssociateProf.ZhuJingAcademicDegreeAppl

2、iedfor:MasterofArtsSpecialty:EnglishLanguageLiteratureUniversity:HebeiUniversityDateofOralExamination:May,2013AbstractAbstractSandraCisneros(1954-)isfamousforherinitialinternationallyacclaimedworkTheHouseonMangoStreetpublishedin1984.Itisasmallbookcomprisedof44lyricalchapterswritteninalanguagethati

3、seasytounderstandandinastylethatiscomplicatedtopresentthethemes.Itsprotagonist,EsperanzaCordero,agirlofMexican-AmericanheritagegrowingupinChicago,isportrayedoverthecourseofseveralyearsasshemovesfromlatechildhoodintoyoungadulthood.Eversinceitspublication,thebookhasgainedmoreandmorecriticalattention

4、bothathomeandabroad.Someanalyzetheworkfromtheperspectivesofmarginalizedidentity,feminism,andecologism,whileothersfromnarrativecharacteristics,postmodernism,andappraisaltheory.ThepresentthesistreatsitasacanonofmodernBildungsromanandarguesthatwithitsthemesofself-definition,itsbordercrossinggenreandi

5、tspostmoderncontext,thenovelisauniquemoderncomingofagestoryofMexicanAmericanwomen.Thisthesisconsistsoffiveparts.ChapterOnereviewsbrieflySandraCisneros’sworksandpreviousstudiesofTheHouseonMangoStreet,anddefinesitasamodernBildungsromanbysummarizingthehistoryofBildungsroman.ChapterTwodealswithtwoperi

6、odsofEsperanza’sstruggleforherself-definition:firstasawomanlivinginaHispaniccommunity,andlaterasanartistwithadefinitelifegoal.ChapterThreemovestotheinnovativeandbordercrossingformofthenovelandsuggeststhat,thepoeticaspectscanmakethenovellessdidacticastraditionalBildungsromanwouldhavebeen.ChapterFou

7、rprobestheexpressionofasenseofalienationduringtheBildungprocessofethnicminorityinapostmodernera,asreflectedbothbyEsperanza’s(andCisneros’s)bilingualwritingandtheinvisibletraumacausedbyconsumerculture.ChapterFivec