NOVELISTIC STRUCTURE AND MYTH IN "... Y NO SE LO TRAGO LA TIERRA"

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Because ... y no se lo trag? la has become a classic of fiction, most people teaching literature have dealt with the work and have, directly or indirectly, had to confront the question of structure and genre. In his introduction to the novel, Herminio R?os C. first raised the question of genre when he declared: '.. .y no se lo trag? la tierra, 'en su creaci?n en los pensamientos, sentimientos, personalidad del escritor, y en su estructura y presentaci?n tem?tica revela una unidad que se aproxima al g?nero de la novela.1 To justify this closeness to the form, R?os speaks of the fictional narrator a unifying element and of the structure having two frame stories and twelve interior stories symbolically representing the year. Beyond these general suggestions he does not go. Apparently disagreement with R?os' suggestion, Carlota C?rdenas de Dwyer, her dissertation Chicano Literature 1965-1975: The Flowering of the Southwest, ignores ...y no se lo trag? la the first novel, giving that disti

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