By Margarite Fernandez Olmos
Rudolfo A. Anaya's seven novels can all be seen when it comes to the Chicano literary culture although their wealthy texts have earned Anaya a spot of admire in mainstream smooth American literature. Fernandez Olmos courses the reader via Anaya's literary international with transparent signposts, illuminating the legendary, cultural, and linguistic complexities of his staggering tales. From his coming of age masterpiece Bless Me, Ultima (1972) to his latest paintings Shaman iciness (1999) Anaya's writing with its wealthy religious symbolism is introduced all the way down to earth and made obtainable to the coed reader by way of Fernandez Olmos's insightful analyses. This paintings devotes a bankruptcy to every novel, permitting Fernandez Olmos to lead the reader via each one, exhibiting either the styles and adaptations of literary units in Anaya's works, whereas providing attention-grabbing replacement interpretations of Anaya's writing.
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Southwest, which became a symbol of Chicano cultural origins, unity, and self-determination. S. Latino writing in general) is in the area of linguistic innovation and experimentation. Many Chicano authors write in stan- 16 Rudolfo A. Anaya dard English, although a significant number create in Spanish or in a combination of English and Spanish (poets and playwrights in particular). Referred to linguistically as ‘‘code-switching’’ (or deprecatingly as ‘‘Spanglish’’), the process involves combining languages in a manner that reflects the spoken idiom of millions of Chicanos.
At the time Anaya was writing his work the society of the United States was experiencing a crisis of values similar to that portrayed in the novel in the mid-1940s. The theme of the pressure of change portrayed in the novel that Tonn identifies is underscored in the scene in which the townspeople react to the detonation of the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1945: ‘‘They compete Bless Me, Ultima 41 with God, they disturb the seasons, they seek to know more than God Himself. In the end, that knowledge they seek will destroy us all’’ (190).
As in previous circumstances, Antonio confronts and partially resolves these conflicts in his dreams. In one dream the waters of the mermaid and the golden carp transform themselves into the stormy waters of his parents’ fierce struggle over his future. The sweet water of the placid Luna moon tries to claim his loyalty, while his father rages that the salt water of the oceans is what truly binds him as a Ma´rez. The conflict grows into a cosmic storm that threatens to destroy everything until Ultima intercedes.