Abstract

Borrowing Juan Bruce-Novoa's formulation of the interlingual of Chicanismo, the essay specifically addresses how individual Chicano writers have negotiated the space between Spanish and in their works. (This issue is not exclusive to Chicanos. Paula Gunn Allen made a parallel point when she referred to the that Laguna Pueblo women spoke as a half-breed language ... that is common to half-breeds all over the country, regardless of what tribes they come from [7]). As ethnic American writers develop various strategies for negotiating the space between their cultural experiences and Anglo-American hegemony, the contest site is most often the language. Once the notion that standard English is the