The sixteen-year-old boy laughed with his friends as he approached an irrigation-ditch pool for a swim. But as Rudolfo Anaya dove into the water, "the world disappeared." When he finally came to, he c...
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Principally because of his first novel, Bless Me, Ultima (1972), Rudolfo Anaya is considered a major contemporary Mexican-American writer. The book, one of the few Chicano literary best-sellers, appea...
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Rudolfo A. Anaya, author of fiction and nonfiction books, plays, articles, children's books, and short-story collections, is often referred to as the "Godfather of the Chicano Literary Movement." His ...
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Rudolfo A. Anaya is known as a novelist, but his work includes essays, short stories, poetry, and drama. Flourishing as a writer during the 1970s, Anaya has written novels that represent the American ...
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Critical Essay by Angelo Restivo
The title of Rudolfo Anaya's new novel [Tortuga] refers, first, to the "magic mountain" (with a nod here to Thomas Mann) that towers over the hos...
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In the following essay, Clark provides an overview of Anaya's life, literary career, and growing recognition as a founding father of contemporary Chicano literature.
From the large, east-fac...
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In the following review, Saez offers a positive assessment of Zia Summer.
Zia Summer, Rudolfo Anaya's latest novel, is a detective story that develops the themes of cultural identification a...
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In the following essay, Iftekharuddin examines traditional Hispanic conceptions of gender and the portrayal of women as temptresses and victims of sexual violence in Anaya's short fiction.
A...
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In the following review, Nericcio offers an unfavorable assessment of Jalamanta.
In January of 1996 a writer for Publishers Weekly, that chronicler of esthetically noteworthy textual effluvia, fell...
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In the following interview, originally conducted in May 1986, Anaya comments on his formative influences, the development of Chicano literature, his interest in mythology, and the problems of cultural...
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In the following interview, originally conducted in 1992, Anaya discusses the state of Chicano literature in the United States, as well as his own literary aims, cultural concerns, and identity as a C...
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In the following review, McIlvoy offers a positive assessment of Alburquerque.
Alburquerque is an archetypal story of a young man's initiation into self-acceptance and, finally, kinship with...
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In the following review, Jones offers a favorable assessment of Alburquerque.
At the age of twenty-one, Abrán González—the former Golden Gloves boxer and pride of the Albuquerq...
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Rudolfo Anaya is a great writer who has written Bless Me, Ultima and many outstanding novels from a Latin-American background and personal experience. He is a favorite among high school students...
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Critical Essay by Angelo Restivo
A Biography of Rudolfo Anaya
