Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolfo A. Anaya: Criticism
In the following essay excerpt, the author offers an overview of Anaya's work and career, stating that the "evocative power" of Bless Me, Ultima "lies in the crossweaving of cultural, social, and psychological levels of action to form a seamless, holistic unity."
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, appears on high school and college curricula, holds an important place in the landscape of Chicano literary criticism, and (with some of his other novels) has been translated into German and Polish. The book's merit and market success have allowed Anaya to enjoy popularity simultaneously with relative critical acclaim. Since 1972 he has published four more novels and coedited several anthologies....
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