Romance With America: Americanization in the Bluest Eye and The House on Mango Street
Abstract
Emerging identity focuses much of the study of what is called American ethnic literature. Characteristic to this study, is defining the specificities of experience unique to a particular ethnic group carving out its niche in the "American" identity. While evaluating these specificities is valuable to productive understanding of American ethnic texts, their placement as American texts serves an important role in accurate contextualization of the issues the texts confront. It is on such a basis that comparative critique of American ethnic texts serves the scholarship surrounding these texts and that I position this paper. Reading Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street in a comparative context allows an investigation of parallel identity issues that are represented through cultural specificity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA387337
Entities
People
- Niko S. Bronson
Organizations
- University of Washington