"I think Latina writers today, even more than Latino writers, are trying to integrate both cultures, the Hispanic and the Anglo. There is a conscious effort to include both visions, like V. S. Naipaul does in his novels: the native and the foreign, the colonizers and the colonized. There's an effort to underline the importance of the "side view" in them, of the border town. From the border you have access to more roads, and the perspective-front and back-can be 180 degrees. Spanish and English, those two opposing paths that have kept the New World divided for centuries, are beginning to merge at last into a third path. That's what these new novels are really about: a new United States, where half of the population will be Latino in the next century."
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