奇卡納作家桑德拉·希斯內羅絲在《芒果街上的小屋》中探索了美國拉美裔族群的集體身份和族裔女性的性別身份,空間在作家對身份的探索中具有明顯的現實性和政治性。作家以芒果街這一社會空間為背景,揭示了不同強勢集團的空間表征,從而表現出空間在身份建構中的重要性。拉美裔女性作家要完成族裔身份和性別身份的雙重建構,就必須顛覆表征著對立與壓迫的空間話語體系。

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros probes into Latino Americans’ collective identity and Latinas’ gender identity, where space is treated as a dynamic with its own realistic and political orientation in identity construction. With Mango Street as its setting, the work illustrates the representation of space by various dominant groups to reveal the mechanism of space in identity construction. In order to construct their ethnic and gender identity, Latina women writers such as Cisneros attempt to subvert the mainstream space discourse that has led to social confrontation and oppression.