Peregrinos de Aztlan (Pilgrims in Aztlan) | Peregrinos de Aztlán: Overview
In the following essay, del Pino presents an
overview of Peregrinos de Aztlán, stating that
Méndez “indicts the perverse political systems converging
on the border by rescuing stories that were
never officially told.”
Peregrinos de Aztlán, Miguel Méndez M.’s first novel, was a long awaited literary event in Chicano literature. Méndez M. had already achieved recognition through his short stories “Tata Casehua” and “Taller de imagenes: pase” (Shop of Images: Come In), which had been written in a very polished prose and innovative imagery in the Spanish language. Peregrinos came to verify the masterful use of language by a Chicano construction worker who had not finished high school and who, by reason of class, education, and resources, was considered incapable of...
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