The Plum Plum Pickers (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Barrio
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: The Santa Clara Valley, California
- Principal Characters: Ramiro Sanchez, Manuel Gutierrez, Lupe Gutierrez, Morton J. Quill, Frederick Y. Turner, Jean Angelica Turner
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Multiculturalism, Mexican Americans, Bilingualism
- Locales: California, Santa Clara Valley, CA
The Novel
Detailing the daily lives of Chicano migrant farmworkers trapped in low-paying, dead-end, back-breaking roles within the corporate agricultural system, The Plum Plum Pickers protests their exploitation and degradation. While exploring the hierarchy of oppression, the novel attacks the greed, racism, and injustice leveled against workers and reveals the unfulfilled hopes of the workers, who suffer from self-deception, disillusionment, and self-destruction.
Written with a loosely framed narrative but carefully designed coherent structure, the novel...
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