![]() ![]() ![]() Caramelo, a 2003 book by Sandra Cisneros, is a lengthy, fragmented novel divided into three parts. Set in rural Utah, this brief novel is a coming-of-age tale, or bildungsroman, that chronicles the experiences that will help the unnamed narrator make the transition from childhood to adulthood. ![]() And the Earth Did Not Devour Him was originally written in Spanish in 1971. The novels that will be examined in this chapter are very different. While it is almost impossible to dispute the idea that the topic of the family is central to Chicana and Chicano writing, Stavans signals that such dominance must be weighed against authorial uses of the family motif as part of literary creations. According to Latino writer Ilan Stavans, “Geneology rules Latino literature tyrannically” and “fiction is a device used to explore roots”(54). ![]()
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