Introduction

Biographical sketch

The story behind the story

List of characters

Summary and analysis

Critical views. Jody Norton on history, rememory, and transformation ; Maria Elena de Valdés on Esperanza's search for identity ; Thomas Matchie on literary continuity ; Michelle Scalise Sugiyama on the eroticism of feet ; Leslie S. Gutiérrez-Jones on the re-building of the barrio ; Ellen McCracken on the demystification of patriarchal violence ; Tomoko Kuribayashi on space and bilingualism ; Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano on Chicana feminist perspective ; María Herrera-Sobek on the politics of rape ; Julián Olivares on the poetics of space ; Maria Szadziuk on becoming a woman in bi-ethnic space ; Leslie Petty on the "dual"-ing images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe ; Jacqueline Doyle on personal space

Works by Sandra Cisneros

Annotated bibliography

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index.