Monday, February 25, 2008

Tomás Rivera, ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him...

I. Antecedents



José Antonio Villarreal, Pocho (1959)

José Antonio Villareal’s novel Pocho: A Novel About a Young Mexican American Coming of Age in California (1959) was considered to be the first Latino novel published in English prior to the archival work undertaken by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita.

II. Tomás Rivera (1935—1984)

...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971)

III. Literary history and Earth

a. Truncated Comparisons
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (1944)

B. Intertext
Nellie Campobello, Cartucho (1931)

IV.Futures

The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez

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