Denise Chavez (1948-)
examines the tensions facing a teenage girl growing up
in a Hispanic neighborhood but also having to deal with the surrounding Anglo culture. And in
The House on Mango
Street
,
Sandra Cisneros (1954-)
presents a series of vignettes that similarity depict the coming of age of a young
Latina.
The diversity of contemporary American fiction includes a number of significant works by writers of Asian
descent. Two women—
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-);
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
and
Tripmaster Monkey
) and
Amy Tan (1952-)
;
The Joy Luck Club
and
The Hundred Secret Senses
)—have forcefully
portrayed the challenges of growing up in America in an Asian-American family and community. Another woman—
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