Ethnic Fiction Genre – What’s the best definition for the ethnic fiction genre? Books in the ethnic fiction genre have central characters that are African American, Native American, Italian American, Jewish, Appalachian, or are members of some other cultural group. Ethnic genre book plots have conflict where the main character has to deal with two ways of life, often American culture and their own personal ethnic culture. The cultural and social issues genre goes hand in hand with some of the struggles one might be faced with in the ethnic genre because they both deal with cultural and social conflict.
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Ethnic Fiction Genre – Examples
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1. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
2. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
5. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
6. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
7. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
10. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
11. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
13. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
14. The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
15. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
16. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
17. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
18. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
19. The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
20. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
21. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
22. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
23. Waiting by Ha Jin
24. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
25. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
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