In Sapogonia, edited and revised for its Anchor publication, Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of ...
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Sep 30, 2010
John
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Castillo is the most consistently frustrating and disappointing Chicana writer I can think of. She is wonderfully imaginative, and I am constantly drawn in by her work on a conceptual level. But then the execution is so maddening. This novel had moments where I could see a fascinating political (critique of American policy vis-a-vis Latin American dictatorships) or aesthetic (riffing on the picaresque) vision taking shape, but these visions were often at odds with one another. And the shifting n
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