DE MENINAS A MULHERES CHICANAS: CRESCENDO SOB O DUPLO PATRIARCADO ESTADUNIDENSE EM A CASA NA RUA MANGO

Abstract

From girls to Chicano women, the American double patriarchy imprisons the female gender that grows up under the optics of oppression. However, this bibliographic research analyzes how it is possible to perceive the growth of adolescent girls for Chicano women, through their experiences in an American patriarchal society full of double patriarchy of gender, race, and class oppression from three characters: Esperanza, Sally, and Minerva, present in the novel The house on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros. The analysis is based as it on the intersectional studies of feminist writers Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Rosario Morales. To conclude, when we analyze the characters, it was possible to perceive that Esperanza through the ancestral mirrors is the only character to change her destiny, on the other hand, Sally and Minerva are been silenced, as well their mothers. Therefore, it is possible to reflect and perceive that growing up under two cultures, both historically rooted in the hierarchy of white culture, directly affects the nonacceptance of Chicano female identities, as well as silencing.