Acts of Naming in Chicano/ Chicana Fiction

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  • B.J. Manríquez Texas Tech University

Abstract

The pupose of this short analysis is to jump ahead many, many, centuries of naming theory and concentrate on commonalities of acquiring an ethnic identity (let's be clear that we'll have an ethnic identity) through names to answer my question: do Chicana literary naming conventions mirror the mainstream's or canonical author's conventions? My hypothesis was that they did not, but I was wrong. I was wrong because in any literary work each "name" is a rhetorical device insofar as it communicates a "particular story." Walter Fisher's narrative paradigm proposes that very person has life experiences that become her own "story." These experiences are biographical, cultural, historical, and moral, and they set the perimeters that reasoning and valuing beings will use to conduct their lives.

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Vol. 3 No. 2

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