Title of article :
Leaving Mango Street: Speech, Action and the Construction of Narrative in Britton’s Spectator Stance
Author/Authors :
Katherine Crawford-Garrett، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Pages :
14
From page :
95
To page :
108
Abstract :
This paper attempts to unite The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros with the participant and spectator theories of James Britton and D. W. Harding in the hopes that such a union will provide new insights into each. In particular, this article explores how the speech acts of Esperanza, the novel’s protagonist, are indicative of a shifting stance during the course of the novel. This shift, from participant to spectator, enables Esperanza to objectify her experience and eventually narrate her departure from Mango Street. Aside from its attempts to join theory and literature, this argument has implications for the classroom as well, a space in which the value of the spectator stance is often overlooked.
Keywords :
Young adult fiction Multicultural literature Latino(a) literature Participant and spectator stance Speech Narrative Reader response
Journal title :
Childrens Literature in Education
Serial Year :
2009
Journal title :
Childrens Literature in Education
Record number :
828008
Link To Document :
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