An answer to the discussion question of whether or not there is a

defined border culture would need a great number of years in field research, but

we can also observe a few of the characteristics of such border culture just by

looking at scholastic essays and books related to the topic. Within the

research that I did, I found a number of scholars who, while defining the border,

mention all the specific or special characteristics of this new emerging society,

but who also very few times defined it as such. In the book that I researched,

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya, we find many of those characteristics.

There is already much work on this piece of literature, therefore, I decided to

present my research and study in two ways. First, I will give a personal

analysis of the work, in which I will discuss the different topics and

parallelisms that I believe are related to an emerging border culture, and

second, I will discuss and complete analysis made by Roberto Cantu, published

in The Iden tification and Analysis of Chicano Literature.

The novel by Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima, was printed in June 1972,

but won the first price in the Second Ann

development as well as our main point in identifying a border culture. There is

Jimenez, F. (1979). The Identification and Analysis of Chicano Literature.

Revista del Instituto de investigaciones sociales. Mexicali: Universidad

old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children then perhaps

is the conflict that it is going on inside him.

Anaya, R. (1972). Bless Me, Ultima. California: Quinto Sol Publications, Inc.

culture collision is that Antonio gets accustomed to it. In a while it does not

Calderon, H. & Saldivar, J. (1991). Criticism in the Borderlands. Durham &

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. (1983). Estudios Fronterizos.

Each person on the novel plays and important part on Antonio's life and

grammars, structures and vocabulary to form a hybrid language; it

conflicto historico en un cabal mestizaje - ideologico, cultural- que supera

Mexico, a region that does not adhere to the economic, ethical, political, or

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