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Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing.(Book review)

Publication: Studies in American Fiction
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2006. x + 219 pp. Cloth: $49.50. Paper: $19.50.

Dean Franco's comparative study offers a very useful contribution to the literature of national as...

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...identity, well as to the expanding field of ethnic and American studies. This is a thoroughly engaging work that struggles most fruitfully with issues such as the "pastness/presentness of trauma" and the "authentic ethnic identity." Through illuminating close readings, Franco demonstrates the paradox of how the same ethnic literary text might reveal the intrinsic malleability of collectives even as it affirms the particularity of cultures (and the attending realms of ethics, epistemologies, religion) in the United States....

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