![]() Luedtke relies on sociological studies by Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck to illustrate the discrepancy: Problem Man's relation to nature Essence of human nature Man's relation to man Preferable activities Time orientation Mexican-American Response Subjugation-to-nature Mutable Good-and-Evil Lineality (group, family) Being Present-Time American Response Mastery-over-nature Evil-but-Perfectible Individualism Doing Future-Time The contrasting categories suggest an important epistemological 21 2 Ethnic Studies Review Volume 28: 1 orientation that continues to inform fiction and socio-political values. The existential plight demonstrated in the novel is heightened because of the distance between the historical and mythical origins of the Chicanos and the white mainstream culture which posits the American Dream in confusing and alien terms. ![]() Luedtke explores the Chicano novel Pacho only to conclude that this novel confirms its protagonist as a 'universal man' who 'suffers an existential insecurity against which no community can protect him' (14). ![]() ![]() Transcription 1 Hada-Beauty 'BEAUTY, BORDERS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM IN RICHARD DOKEY'S 'SANCHEZ ' Kenneth Hada East Central University (Oklahoma) Critics have pointed out discrepancies between what is commonly understood as the American Dream in the mainstream culture at large and the fictive representation of Chicanos or Mexican-Americans who attempt to appropriate the dream as their own.
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