"The Magic of Words" : the writer as curandero in the works of Rudolfo A. Anaya /
a mentor, a curandero, who helps in their search for truth
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | a mentor, a curandero, who helps in their search for truth a writer can be a curandero, or a healer in the Mexican- American community. A curandero is the Mexican-American folk and provides the knowledge needed to succeed. Without these chapter deals primarily with the slow progression of the chapter, the second chapter defines and explains connection with nature. curandera, Ultima, and her magical powers. This chapter also curanderismo, discussing the influences which affected the deals with the growth of the young protagonist, Antonio, and development of curanderismo and the three different forms in first novel, Bless Me, Ultima, in which he describes the healer who heals physical, spiritual, and mental illnesses healers, society would risk the loss of its beneficial in their lives. His novels provide protagonists as examples landscape provide an important source for the protagonists in novels, Anaya proposes that the curandero and the local of such a transformation. After the introductory first person to fully develop into a writer. Through these four provides evidence of the importance of traditions for a Rudolfo A. Anaya argues in his first four novels, Bless Me, suggests that by learning about the traditions and history of the suggestion that he will become a writer with a deep their ancestors, his readers are able to find a fulfillment their search for self-identity. All of his protagonists have through the use of herbal remedies, prayer, and faith. Anaya Tortuga, and Alburquerque [sic]. Each of these novels Ultima; Heart Of Aztlan; Tortuga; and Alburquerque [sic] that understanding of people and his surroundings. The fourth which it is practiced. The third chapter focuses on Anaya's writer, Ben Chavez, in Anaya's three novels Heart of Aztlan, |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: English". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 66 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |