New Mexico in late 2010. The film premiered at the Plaza Theatre in El Paso, Texas on September 17, 2012 and received a general release in February 2013. Operatic adaptation An opera based on Bless Me, Ultima by composer and librettist Héctor Armienta had its premiere at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in partnership with Opera Southwest, from February 18 through 25, 2018. The San Francisco Chronicle credited it with "grand moments". Notes See also Apocalypse Bildungsroman Book Censorship in the United States Bricolage Esotericism Monomyth Mestizo Our Lady of Guadalupe Also known as La Virgen de Guadalupe La Llorona-A Hispanic Legend retrieved December 28, 2011 Ghostly Legends of the Southwest retrieved December 28, 2011 The Cry, La Llorona retrieved December 28, 2011 National Hispanic Center retrieved December 28, 2011 Rudolfo Anaya References Further reading Anaya, R. A. (1972). Bless Me, Ultima. Berkeley, CA: TQS Publications. Baeza, A. (2001). Man of Aztlan: A Biography of Rudolfo Anaya. Waco: Eakin Press. Baria, A. G. (2000). Magic and mediation in Native American and Chicano/a literature author(s). PhD dissertation, Department of English, The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA. Bauder, T. A. (1985, Spring). The triumph of white magic in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima. Mester, 14, 41–55. Calderón, H. (1990). Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima. In César A. González-T. (Ed.), Rudolfo A. Anaya: Focus on criticism (pp. 64–99). La Jolla, CA: Lalo Press. Campbell, J. (1972). The Hero with a thousand faces (2nd Ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Candelaria, C. (1989). Rudolfo A. Anaya. In M.J. Bruccoli, R. Layman, & C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr. (Series Eds.) and F. A. Lomelí & C. R. Shirley (Vol. Eds.), Dictionary of literary biography: Vol. 82. Chicano writers, first series (pp. 24–35). Detroit: Gale Research. Cantú, R. (1990). Apocalypse as an ideological construct: The storyteller's art in Bless Me, Ultima. In César A. González-T. (Ed.), Rudolfo A. Anaya: Focus on criticism (pp. 64–99). La Jolla, CA: Lalo Press. Carrasco, D. (1982, Spring-Fall). A perspective for a study of religious dimensions in Chicano experience: Bless Me, Ultima as a religious text. Aztlán, 13, 195–221. Cazemajou, Jean. (198_). The search for a center: The shamanic journey of mediators in Anaya's trilogy, Bless Me, Ultima; Heart of Aztlán, and Tortuga.In César A. González-T. (Ed.), Rudolfo A. Anaya: Focus on criticism (pp. 254–273). La Jolla, CA: Lalo Press. Dasenbrock, R.