{"id":1467,"date":"2025-04-16T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:17:19","slug":"cultural-traditions-and-womens-self-assertion-in-sandra-cisneros-the-house-on-mango-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND WOMEN\u2019S SELF-ASSERTION IN SANDRA CISNEROS\u2019 THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Abstract<\/span>
Cultural practices and traditions aim to ensure people\u2019s individual freedom as well as their collective identity. However, in gender relations, some women are, rightly or wrongly, alienated. The query is: how can cultural traditions enhance people\u2019s self-assertion instead of alienating them? The answer to this query constitutes the core purpose of this paper. The study uses Sandra Cisneros\u2019 female characters\u2019 inner feelings in The<\/span>
House on Mango Street in order to analyze the ties between cultural traditions and their impact on women\u2019s capacity to express themselves and contribute to their families\u2019 welfare. Through the critical lens of postcolonial<\/span>
theory, this paper scrutinizes women\u2019s actions and reactions in traditional settings, especially regarding attitudes about marriage and freedom. It promotes freedom of expression in traditional societies to ensure everyone\u2019s participation in the building of African societies.<\/span>
Keywords: Individualism, traditions, self-assertion, post-colonial, freedom<\/span>
R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/span>
Les pratiques culturelles et les traditions visent \u00e0 garantir la libert\u00e9 individuelle et collective des personnes. Cependant, dans les relations hommes-femmes, certaines femmes sont, \u00e0 tort ou \u00e0 raison, ali\u00e9n\u00e9es. La question qui se pose est la suivante : comment les traditions culturelles peuvent-elles renforcer l\u2019affirmation de soi plut\u00f4t que d\u2019ali\u00e9ner les individus ? La r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 cette question constitue l\u2019objectif central du pr\u00e9sent article. Il se base sur les ressentis des personnages f\u00e9minins de Sandra Cisneros dans\u00a0 son roman The House on Mango Street pour analyser les liens entre les traditions culturelles et la capacit\u00e9 des femmes \u00e0 s\u2019exprimer et \u00e0 contribuer au bien-\u00eatre de leurs familles. \u00c0 travers le prisme critique de la th\u00e9orie postcoloniale, l\u2019article examine les actions et r\u00e9actions des femmes dans les contextes traditionnels, en particulier sur les questions relatives au mariage et \u00e0 la libert\u00e9. L\u2019article vise \u00e0 promouvoir la libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s traditionnelles afin de garantir la participation de tous \u00e0 la<\/span>
construction des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s africaines.<\/span>
Mots cl\u00e9s : Individualisme, traditions, affirmation de soi, post-colonialit\u00e9, libert\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abstract Cultural practices and traditions aim to ensure people\u2019s individual freedom as well as their collective identity. However, in gender relations, some women are, rightly or wrongly, alienated. The query is: how can cultural traditions enhance people\u2019s self-assertion instead of alienating them? The answer to this query constitutes the core purpose of this paper. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}