Nash Candelaria

Heiner Bus (Otto-Friedrich Universit)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 7 May 1928
Died 5 Jan 2016
Activity 1977-2016

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Candelaria's Works

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Nash Candelaria, author of four novels and two short story collections so far, has been called the “historical novelist of the Hispanic people of New Mexico”, who “has brought a special perspective to Chicano literature,” and imported “the narrative of self-identity” into it. Ever since the publication of

Memories of the Alhambra

(1977), the first volume of his Rafa family quartet, critics have attempted to classify him within their closed ideological systems stressing some components while ignoring others. During the first period of the Chicano cultural renaissance they missed an open declaration of political purpose for his work questioning his self-characterization as “a Chicano who writes. I don't see my writing as a political instrument. I don't belong to the Chicano…

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Citation: Bus, Heiner. "Nash Candelaria". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 June 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5041, accessed 22 November 2024.]