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Article: Ana Castillo's So Far From God: intimations of the absurd.(Critical Essay)
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- College Literature
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- March 22, 2002
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One of few Chicana writers to be published by a New York publishing firm, Ana Castillo soon became popular in academic circles as a feminist whose poetry challenges the culture-based, stereotypic perceptions of Chicanas, perceptions held by the dominant society and espoused as well by Chicanos and other Chicanas. Potential readers of Castillo's work need to be aware that Castillo uses different narrative strategies in the three novels published to date. (1) The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986) is written in epistolary form: the story unfolds through the correspondence between two friends. Similar to Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch that he claims can be read non-sequentially from any ...
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Article: Peel My Love Like an Onion: Ana Castillo
Herizons;
March 1, 2000 ;
691 words
...PEEL MY LOVE LIKE AN ONION: ANA CASTILLO DOUBLEDAY, 1999 Carmen Santos, the heroine of Peel My Love Like ... showing her readers the way it can be. Her novel So Far From God, which tracks four daughters' course toward martyrdom, is a ...
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