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Journal Article
REVISION OF ETHNIC IMMIGRANT FICTION PATTERNS IN MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE BY FRANCINE PROSE
2024
Overview
The paper discusses the changing role of ethnicity in immigrant narratives withthe example of Francine Prose's novel My New American Life (2011). It is amultidimensional work of fiction which presents ethnicity as a cultural and social asset. Thenovel brings into play and revisits a tradition of the novel of manners. It uses Americancultural and social stereotypes to tailor the main character’s new identity of existential in-betweenness. and to represent the American realities of the Bush-Cheney era through thefilter of the protagonist’s perspective as a semi-legal alien of a suspicious ethnicbackground. The paper problematizes the geopolitical challenges of immigration that thenovel’s characters deal with in post-9/11 America. The article argues that in the novel,immigration is presented as a process with a distinct social dimension, prioritizing safetyand welfare over the values of democracy and personal freedom.
