Biography

Cisneros, Sandra, Feroza Jussawalla, and Reed Way Dasen-brock. "Sandra Cisneros." In Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers, edited by Susan Cahill, pp. 459-68. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994.

Cisneros discusses political, economic, and social concerns, racial issues, and her literary influences.

Criticism

Brunk, Beth L. "En otras voces: Multiple Voices in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street." Hispanofila, no. 133 (September 2001): 137-50.

Analyzes Cisneros's narrative style in The House on Mango Street and the underlying reasons behind these narrative techniques.

Cisneros, Sandra, and Gayle Elliot. "An Interview with Sandra Cisneros." Missouri Review 25, no. 1 (2002): 95-109.

Cisneros explains her political and social motivations, her use of short story and full novel forms, and the importance and power of language.

Curiel, Barbara Brinson. "The General's Pants: A Chicana Feminist (re)Vision of the Mexican Revolution in Sandra Cisneros's 'Eyes of Zapata'." Western...