ABSTRACT
Joe D. Rodriguez, from San Diego State University, claims that taking to the road is a version of the frontier saga. He also suggests that ethnicity was Zeta's literary mission. Oscar Zeta Acosta is best known as the militant Chicano attorney who successfully defended the Biltmore 7 against political and ethnic persecution in the city of Los Angeles. Acosta persuades his reader to accept that ethnicity is incompatible with 'American' culture." Acosta's satiric vision, "formed out of the sixties counterculture, focuses on the American ideological solution to the problem of ethnicity, the metaphor of the melting pot. Acosta's political strategy is to emphasize the ethnicity of all his many characters in both rural and urban settings, from Riverbank, California, to San Francisco.
