Rudolfo Anaya | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Rudolfo Anaya.

Rudolfo Anaya | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Rudolfo Anaya.
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SOURCE: “Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya's The Silence of the Llano,1 in Journal of Modern Language, Vol. 20, No. 1, Summer, 1996, pp. 121–28.

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 noticeable feature in Mexican American literature is the suggestion, at once implicit and explicit, that culture, history, and setting are the decisive factors determining identity and destiny. The shared history of two nations—Mexico and the United States—which is the inheritance of Mexican Americans, provides evidence to support this suggestion and also marks a partial focus for Mexican American literature. Nearly three hundred years of subjugation under Spanish rule has left indelible marks on Mexicans. Pure Indian bloodlines have given way to generations of mestizos (the mixed offspring of Indian and Spanish blood); the building of Spanish churches atop...

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