Bless Me, Ultima | Magical Strength in the Human Heart
In the following essay, Wilson examines Bless Me, Ultima outside of its usual characterization as “The Chicano Novel.”
Bless Me, Ultima deserves to be described outside of the implicit claims that it is The Chicano Novel, a category as fishy and as detrimental to any clear thinking about our expectations for fiction as The American Novel category has become. Among other things, the millions of chicanos in the U.S. may feel a unity of ancestry and a com- munity in their oppression, but their experience of life is in no other way unified. . . . The people of the book themselves, small-scale farmers and cowboys, some possessing more than three centuries of history with their removed corner of the...
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