 | Juli‡n Olivares - 1986 - 204 หน้า
...protagonist knows who she is, and what her name is, Esperanza. Yet, even this name she would like to change. In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color ... It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the... | |
 | Renato Rosaldo - 1993 - 292 หน้า
...his deeds — destabilizing each as she goes. Let me illustrate by citing "My Name" in its entirety: In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing. It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine.... | |
 | Alvina Quintana - 2010 - 180 หน้า
...embarrassed than angry about her situation; now we hear her innermost thoughts about self-fashioning. In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings. When he is shaving, songs like sobbing. It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is... | |
 | Tomoko Kuribayashi, Julie Ann Tharp - 1998 - 250 หน้า
...grandmother, who resented but could not undo the confinement brought on her by her marriage, means "hope." "In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting" (10). Cisneros' narrative suggests that Esperanza's hope for the future lies in making the most liberating... | |
 | Perdita Finn - 1999 - 68 หน้า
...what do students notice about what these writers are doing and why? My N y name DV Sandra Cisneros In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing. It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine.... | |
 | James Richard Giles - 2000 - 192 หน้า
...self-definition, Esperanza even desires to escape her given name and what she feels are its negative connotations: "In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing" (p. 10). This passage is illustrative of the imaginative... | |
 | Reinhild Fliethmann - 2002 - 340 หน้า
...Identitätssuche zur Sprache. Bedeutsam ist zunächst, dass sie ihren Namen zweifach deuten und auch hören kann: "In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting [...] At school they say my name is funny äs if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof... | |
 | Arturo J. Aldama - 2003 - 470 หน้า
..."Latina"-laced. I will cite Cisneros's prose at length from the chapter tellingly entitled "My Name": In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means...many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. . . . / would like to baptize myself under a neii> name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody... | |
 | Jeff Anderson - 2005 - 217 หน้า
...real reason, not "because it sounds better." "My Name" from The House on Mango Street with the Verbs In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing, (p. 11) — Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street... | |
 | Gönül Pultar - 2005 - 344 หน้า
...on the transcendent importance of such a signifier in the bilingual/ bicultural world she inhabits: In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means...It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing. It was my great-grandmother's name and now it is mine.... | |
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In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing. It... 
