ABSTRACT
Storytelling, or the creation and reception of narrative, is a part of human history and existence. Narrative, whether created as a means to relate experience or to entertain or provide insight into human experience, is an understandably vital function—whether it be as a repository of knowledge or as a means of expression to others. Narrative theorists have worked to find an effective yet comprehensive definition for the term, and it has proven to be a difficult endeavor because narratives are so multivalent. Latinxs’ goal of publishing narratives of their own creation, narratives that suit their own creative whims rather than the narrow notions of what they are expected to write has hindered Latinx writers until relatively late in the twentieth century. In terms of the narrative forms Latinx novels have employed, early novels were more straightforwardly told in linear time and without many narrative characteristics that asked a high demand of the reader.
