![]() ![]() Enculturation (or ethnic socialization) is an individual's internalization of cultural knowledge obtained within one's ethnic group from other co-ethnics such as family, relatives and peers. The different forms of his development are best illustrated with two sociological concepts, enculturation and acculturation. The novel's first-person narrator, Antonio Juan Márez y Luna, recounts in a first-person retrospect his mental and spiritual development, from approximately his sixth to his eighth year, in the US Southwest around the end of the Second World War. ![]() Rudolfo Anaya's Bildungsroman Bless Me, Ultima figures prominently within the latter as a text on hybridity, embodied in the story's protagonist. ![]() Conventionally, literary criticism considers hybridity alongside ethnicity as one of the constitutive ingredients of ethnic American literatures and thus Chicano fiction, one of its canonized genres. ![]()
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