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El temor de haberme equivocado no me abandonaba". Still, Oshinica’s uncertainty about marrying Lalo is evident at the beginning of the second novel when she postpones the wedding night activities : “Si aquel himen se rompía, yo sería de él. Oshinica, searching for an escape from the constant pressures of home and society, marries Lalo because he promises her the best compromise between two desires : the desire to please Oshinica’s family and community and the desire to study and occupy more than just the domestic space. The parallel in Nissán’s novel is easy to identify.

2 Of course what has happened is that Andromeda has simply gone from one form of captivity to another. 1 After recounting the story, Hart quotes Adrienne Ausländer Munich who notes : “Perseus saves Andromeda, then keeps her for sexual and dynastic purpose  obligated to her rescuer, she can neither rescue herself nor refuse his offer of marriage”. Perseus releases Andromeda from her chains and then marries her. A man named Perseus saves the woman Andromeda from a monster who is about to devour her. Inicio de páginaġStephen Hart’s White Ink : Essays on Twentieth-Century Feminine Fiction in Spain and Latin America describes a situation somewhat similar to Oshinica’s escape from her parent’s home which can be linked to Roman Mythology. The analysis reveals the tensions created as the protagonist tries to resolve the conflict between self and famiily, between the mainstream and the marginal, and between the traditional and the modern asking important questions regarding how identity is formed and how the spaces one inhabits exercise control over their identity. These next two sections analize the public: education and work as well as the private spaces: the home and the sacred, with the purpose of identifying the forces that work to create an identity for the protagonist. While Oshinica forges her identity she does so in several spaces, both public and private. After setting down the groundwork for this study in the first installment, these next two -included in this edition of Amerika- focus on different aspects of male and female identity.

Its focus are her first two novels, Novia que te vea and Hisho que te nazca, which are coming-of-age narratives in which the protagonist, Oshinica, attempts to understand her family and community as she grows up during the prosperious years of the Mexican Miracle and the changing society found in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s. Being Mexican is the first book-length attempt to understand the narrative of the Mexican writer Rosa Nissán.