The essay focuses on a complex publishing issue that reveals how U.S. 1930s cultural industry assimilated and perpetuated controversial ethnic expectations on literature. Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat is, in fact, analyzed in comparison to John Fante's unfinished novel about Filipinos in California. The same publisher who published Tortilla Flat eventually rejected Fante's project, claiming that the latter would have done his best on Italian American subjects. The essay, then, contextualizes ethnic expectations in 1930s US publishing industry, and analyzes the two novels focusing on how they represented other ethnicities.
Narrating Outside One’s Own Ethnic Descent: Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat and J. Fante’s Filipino Novel
Enrico Mariani
2021-01-01
Abstract
The essay focuses on a complex publishing issue that reveals how U.S. 1930s cultural industry assimilated and perpetuated controversial ethnic expectations on literature. Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat is, in fact, analyzed in comparison to John Fante's unfinished novel about Filipinos in California. The same publisher who published Tortilla Flat eventually rejected Fante's project, claiming that the latter would have done his best on Italian American subjects. The essay, then, contextualizes ethnic expectations in 1930s US publishing industry, and analyzes the two novels focusing on how they represented other ethnicities.
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