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Article: Times of Conflict: Bless me, Ultima as a Novel of Acculturation.
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- Bilingual Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Bless Me, Ultima (1972) by Rudolfo A. Anaya is a novel that at times sweeps across the mind of the reader with prose that sings with the music of poetry; at times it fascinates the reader with the richness of the ethnic history of Chicano culture, and at times it creates nostalgia for the innocence of youth and the chance to find again one's own identity. Not only is it a novel that contains a rich panorama of visual imagery as it describes the New Mexico landscape of the 1940s, but it is also a novel of realistic concepts about life and living that face ordinary and not-so-ordinary people.
One important view of the novel, largely overlooked, is a reading of ...