Alburquerque (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Rudolfo Anaya
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Ethnic groups, Adultery, Multiculturalism, Mexican Americans, Boxing, Southwest, 1990’s, Bilingualism, Latinos
- Locales: Albuquerque, NM
In Alburquerque, Anaya uses the old name for the city, arbitrarily changed, according to tradition, by a nineteenth century English-speaking train stationmaster in a move that Anaya sees as indicative of cultural intolerance. A former Golden Gloves boxing champion and now a first-year student at the University of New Mexico, Abrán González, is inexplicably summoned to the deathbed of renowned local painter Cynthia Johnson. She tells him that she, a wealthy Anglo, is in fact his biological mother. She dies, however, before revealing the name of González's father, only that he...
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