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Four Views on Ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Linda Hutcheon,
Homi K. Bhabha,
Daniel Boyarin and
Sabine I. Gölz
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When I went from being a Bortolotti to being a Hutcheon, my social and cultural interactions within a predominantly Anglo-Saxon environment changed; my ethnic identity became encrypted, silenced, unless articulated by choice—a pointed lesson in the constructedness of concepts of ethnicity. Like me, Cathy (Notari) Davidson, Marianna (De Marco) Torgovnick, and Sandra (Mortaro) Gilbert are crypto-Italian teachers of English. What we do not share, however, is nationality: they are Italian American, while I am Italian Canadian. I therefore may have a somewhat different experience of ethnicity and its encrypting.

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Special Topic: Ethnicity
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PMLA , Volume 113 , Issue 1: Special Topic Ethnicity , January 1998, pp. 28 - 51
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1998

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