Of comedy and tragedy: a commentary on Adalberto Aguirre

José Limón maintains that Professor Aguirre's account may be construed as fundamentally a story of California, albeit one told from a Chicano perspective. It is based less on any red‐blooded forms of racism and more on the Roycean, Protestant, individualistic, comedic Anglo California that, in its relentless optimisms and perpetual newness, simply cannot bear witness to any traditions of tragedy or anything and anyone that would wish to speak of such.