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Shaul, Michele

Dr. Michele Shaul is the Director of the Center for Latino Studies and Professor of Spanish at Queens University of Charlotte. Dr. Shaul received her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

A SURVEY OF THE NOVELS OF ANA CASTILLO, A CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN AMERICAN WRITER The Mixquiahuala Letters, Sapogonia, So Far From God, Give It to Me, Peel My Love Like an Onion, and The Guardians

2016 1-4955-0466-2
This study critically examines the idea of culture from a perspective that extends beyond ethnicity. The contrast of metropolitan area and small town parallel experiences serves to underline the universality of Castillo’s characters as well as her topical relevance to our contemporary world.