Compare the issue of tradition versus modernization in the stories of these two

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Compare the issue of tradition versus modernization in the stories of these two Mexican-American writers: Roberta Fernandez (Filomena) and Mary Helen Ponce(La Doctora Barr) Compare the issue of tradition versus modernization in the stories of these two Mexican-American writers: Roberta Fernandez (Filomena) and Mary Helen Ponce(La Doctora Barr) Compare the issue of tradition versus modernization in the stories of these two Mexican-American writers: Roberta Fernandez (Filomena) and Mary Helen Ponce(La Doctora Barr)

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Roberta Fernandez (Filomena) and Mary Helen Ponce (La Doctora Barr) are both Mexican American writers who have filled the literary landscape with their writings of Mexican culture.

Filomena was more oriented towards tradition as she was a curator in a Mexican museum. She represented then traditional Mexican culture and was quite inept about her views on culture and the aesthetic values of the Mexican cultre,having been brought up in a traditional family she represented her traditional Mexican upbringing by speaking eloquently about the grandeur of the Chinchua tribes .

Helen Ponce was a typical Mexican representing the neo wave of Mexican tradition and modernization. Her fiction and nonfiction stories represented the changing Mexican landscape towards the modernity and also towards new forays into multiculturism. She represented the modern wave of the new Mexican community.

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