SOURCE: Safer, Elaine B. “Tragedy and Farce in Roth's The Human Stain.” Critique 43, no. 3 (spring 2002): 211-27.
In the following essay, Safer interprets The Human Stain as a commentary on the “political correctness fever” during the 1990s and outlines the tragic and farcical elements of the novel.
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