In this universal piece about family values and formative life experiences, the playwright transcends the categorization of race to demonstrate yet again that although his stories are consistently about Black families and communities, they speak volumes to the entire U.S. culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources. Aura was first published in 1962 by Carlos Fuentes. It is a novel filled with dualities and comparisons such as that of masculine and feminine, young and old, the beautiful and the deteriorating, life and death and darkness and light. It is this very combination of opposites which makes the novel so compelling to read and it becomes a novel of changing and at the same time, the things that remain the same.
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