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A 7 page research paper that, first of all, discusses a novel Famous All Over Town by Danny Santiago and then discusses in more detail the subjects suggested by the novel, i.e., Mexican American assimilation and acculturation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Los Angeles in the 1980s. Excellently and insightfully written, this novel does have a lot to say about multiculturalism in America and what it is like to grow up
male and Hispanic in white-dominated American culture. However, a basic assumption that made about this novel is that the authors voice is authentic, i.e., Hispanic. In reality, Famous All Over
Town was not written by a Hispanic writer, as the name "Santiago" implies, but rather it was written by a white Anglo-Sacon Protestant named Daniel James ("Notebook" 9). This
novel is, nevertheless, considered revealing concerning Hispanic experience. One editor expressed the opinion that this made the authors literary achievement even more profound as it showed that "any person of
any race, sex or culture" is capable of understanding others ("Notebook" 9). Nevertheless, perhaps the reader of this novel should approach it a certain degree of caution as it
does offer an outsiders view of Hispanic culture, not matter how much James empathized with his adolescent protagonist. This examination of multiculturalism in the US, with a focus on Mexican
Americans, will look first the "Santiago" novel, but then at outside sources in order to obtain an in-depth perspective on what it means to be in Hispanic in the US.
In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys last year living on Shamrock Street in East Los Angeles,
just before the Southern Pacific Railroad razes the neighborhood in the name of progress. It is a year in which Chato is witness to the birth of one sister and
the marriage of another, as well as the death of his best friend and the reunion of his mother with her Mexican relatives. Unfortunately, he also witnesses the downfall of
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