Subjectivity and Humanization of Space in the House on Mango Street,

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Subjectivity and humanization of space in The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros It is very surprising that space is still represented today solely as being static and devoid of political content; a trend that continues to give preference, in the analysis of social changes, to a historical view of space instead of a geographical one. The concept of space is and has always been political and is saturated with a complex network of relationships power/knowledge that are expressed in various manners. Space is an ally of the writers. They are using the physical space to generate the staging of their stories, and the mental space to recreate the experience lived in their own environment (at the time an action happens and the psychological profile of the characters) and the sensory body space to determine the distance between people or between a person and a fact, because, for Bachelard, ‘’the union of intimacy and immensity yields intensity, or concentration, of being.’’ Through “correspondences” of these antinomies, he claims that we “receive the immensity of the world” which is then transformed “into intensity of our intimate being” (Bachelard 193). These three spaces (physical, mental, bodily) have a relationship with the "existential" space (anthropological), to which Merleau-Ponty was referring in Phenomenology of Perception, as any place permits the experiment with the medium through the "act of speech". In this sense, space is to place what the word is to speaking, a situation that favors the story because the act of storytelling has the power to transform "places into spaces or spaces into places", be it symbolic or lyrical. (174) Breaking the analytical dualism between time and space, between history and geography, Doreen Massey raises a tetra - dimensionality of time and space, since both are necessarily intertwined. The identity and
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