Item Detail
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English
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Los escogidos y los despreciados : Latino Influences in LDS Literature
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Irreantum
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Spring 2003
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5
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Orem, UT
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Association for Mormon Letters
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26-35
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We will consider later how such circumstances [Latino immigration] should resonate with Mormon belief that "the Lamanites must rise in majesty and power" (Spencer W. Kimball, qtd in Fyans). My more immediate project is to demonstrate that just as Latinos are rising to the forefront of the American literary scene, so will they become a potent force in LDS literature. I hope to do this by looking first at some background to the Latino experience in the Church; then by examining some LDS texts—both prose and poetry—which are not directly tied to these issues, but which show important Latino influences; and finally by surveying two texts—My People by Gordon Laws and Salvador by Margaret Blair Young—which heavily and explicitly on Latino themes for their development and characterization. [From the article]