And the Earth Did Not Part (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tomás Rivera
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Vignette
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: Chiefly Texas
- Principal Characters: A Chicano boy, His community
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Suffering, Adolescence, Immigration or emigration, Faith, Mexican Americans, Devils or demons, Labor
- Locales: Texas
The Story
“. . . and the earth did not part” is the title story in a book of linked stories, a sequence of vignettes in which an unnamed Chicano boy confronts his memories of the past year in an attempt to define himself and to understand more fully the lot of his people. In each of these brief pieces, averaging four or five pages in length, Tomás Rivera presents one facet of the life of a community of migrant workers. The workers and their children—who are indeed workers themselves—are exploited by seemingly uncaring or blatantly callous American bosses. Brutality,...
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