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Empress of the Splendid Season Study Guide

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by Oscar Hijuelos
About 15 pages (4,459 words)

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Literary Precedents

This novel finds itself within a growing collection of Latino fiction. As the canons of literature expand and begin to be broken down by those who have been previously excluded from it, new opportunities for writers of cultures different from the AngloAmerican culture are developed. One novel that works to tell the story of a particular ethnic culture in New York City is Toni Morrison's Jazz. In Morrison's novel, although to a greater extent but similar to Empress of the Splendid Season, music is of extreme importance,.....

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Empress of the Splendid Season from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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