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Pilgrims in Aztlan

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novel, US, tr David William Foster

178 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

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11 reviews3 followers
October 26, 2017
Las historias estuvieron bien planteadas, aunque me hubiera gustado ver más historias de mujeres protagonistas.
Un poco lento de leer debido a que las historias son varias, 12 más o menos y no son lineales, hay flashbacks.
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66 reviews
April 16, 2023
A comparación de las otras novelas y cuentarios que últimamente he leído, me gustó, pero no me encantó, la pondría en un punto medio llegando a positivo. Aunque eso sí, es un clásico de la literatura chicana.
EDIT: al reflexionar me arrepiento totalmente, realmente me fascinó y necesitaba dejar descansar mi mente para valorarlo. Todo está bien contado y todas sus historias están conectadas por ser parte de una cultura que ese entonces se estaba creando: una combinación de Estados Unidos con México; en sus respectivas ciudades cerca de la frontera, y eso lo noto especialmente como mexicana que vive en el norte de México.

Recomiendo de que den la oportunidad a esta joya.
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5 reviews3 followers
October 31, 2014
You want to like this novel, but the prose does not live up to its thematic and structural aspirations. A series of voices, coming through in fragments, make up the form of the novel. In all, the protagonist becomes the collective Chicano conscious as it strives to affirm an identity. The treatment of space is interesting: taking place entirely in the U.S./Mexican borderlands, we are never sure what side of the border these voices speak from. Its lyrical description of the desert (one of the novel's highlights) situates that site as the sacred space of Aztlan. While a must-read in terms of Chicano literature and important to teach in dealing with border-spaces, its fascinating allegory is unfortunately held up by fragments and characters that lack a definitive brilliance.
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