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I come out of a traditional English and American literature background.

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There were no Latino studies, no multicultural studies when I went to college and graduate school.

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In fact, I'm old enough now to have been of the first wave.

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I mean, my books were some of the first that came out in English by someone educated in the United States,

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you know, in mainstream America.

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And so I couldn't be my own model.

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And so my original models were the models that are the models for everyone educated in literature,

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which is, you know, Shakespeare and Chaucer and, you know, particularly the Romantic era.