Refarat "Multicultural Literature" in usa: Mexican American Literature: Rudolfo Anaya(1937-2020) "Rio Grande Fall" (1996) teacher: Nurimbetova. G student: Seydalieva

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Berdakh
Faculty of Foreign Languages
Department of English languages and
literature
REFARAT
"Multicultural Literature" in USA: Mexican American Literature:
Rudolfo Anaya(1937-2020) "Rio Grande Fall" (1996)

TEACHER: Nurimbetova.G

STUDENT: Seydalieva.G

"Multicultural Literature" in USA: Mexican American Literature:

Rudolfo Anaya(1937-2020) "Rio Grande Fall" (1996)
Plan
Multicultural writing
Chicano literature
History of Chicano literature
Rudolfo Anaya
"Rio Grande Fall" (1996)


Introduction

During the 1990s some of the best energies of fiction writers went into autobiography, in works such as Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club (1995), about growing up in a loving but dysfunctional family on the Texas Gulf Coast; Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes (1996), a vivid portrayal of a Dickensian childhood amid the grinding conditions of Irish slum life; Anne Roiphe’s bittersweet recollections of her rich but cold-hearted parents and her brother’s death from AIDS in 1185 Park Avenue (1999); and Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), a painful but comic tour de force, half tongue-in-cheek, about a young man raising his brother after the death of their parents.

The memoir vogue did not prevent writers from publishing huge, ambitious novels, including David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), an encyclopaedic mixture of arcane lore, social fiction, and postmodern irony; Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001, National Book Award) and Freedom (2010), both family portraits; and Don DeLillo’s Underworld (1997), a brooding, resonant, oblique account of the Cold War era as seen through the eyes of both fictional characters and historical figures. All three novels testify to a belated convergence of Social Realism and Pynchonesque invention. Pynchon himself returned to form with sprawling, picaresque historical novels: Mason & Dixon (1997), about two famous 18th-century surveyors who explored and mapped the American colonies, and Against the Day (2006), set at the turn of the 20th century.
The definition of Chicano or Mexican-American encompasses both Mexicans who have moved to the United States and U.S.-born people of Mexican ancestry. The latter group includes people who have lived in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of California before the United States annexed these areas and who lived different experiences than those south of the annexation line. Composed mostly of Spanish-speaking Catholics living in a predominantly English-speaking Protestant country, Chicanos have the status of a linguistic and cultural minority.
Chicano literature also has a racial dynamic; some Mexican-Americans define themselves as mestizo, people with a mixture of primarily indigenous and European heritage, while others fit within the Hispano demographics of people with primarily European heritage. African-descended Mexicans also contribute to this field, with the last governor of Alta California, Pío Pico, having African heritage. There are also people who do not fit easily in these definitions, such as Josefina Niggli, whose parents were Euro-Americans living in Mexico when she was born.