Bless Me, Ultima (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Clark, William, "Rudolfo Anaya: 'The Chicano Worldview,'" in Publisher's Weekly, Vol. 242, No. 23, June 5, 1995, p. 412.

  This overview of Anaya's life and works refers to an interview with Anaya in his New Mexico home.

• Taylor, Paul Beekman, "Chicano Secrecy in the Fiction of Rudolfo A. Anaya," in Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 39, No. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 239-65.

  Taylor discusses the ways in which Anaya uses aspects of two cultures, languages, and traditions to explore secrecy in his fiction. Secrecy is seen as a method of resistance to the dominant culture, an "effective weapon against the tyranny of Eurocentric political, technical, and cultural hegemony."