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Title: Literature And Ethnic Discrimination.(Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 18) by Michael J. Meyer ISBN: 9-0420022-1-2 Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $20.00

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Comment: Miichael J. Meyer's anthology, _Literature and Ethnic Discrimination_, contains a superb essay by Eric Sterling entitled "Loss and Growth of Identity in Shimon Wincelberg's Resort 76." Sterling discusses how Wincelberg's drama portrays a convinced Nazi during World War II who is discovered to be the grandson of a Jew and who is forced to live in the Lodz Ghetto. The onetime Nazi's prejudices against Jews evaporate and he rejects his convictions in Nazi ideology. The topic of the Holocaust is also discussed by Peter R. Erspamer in his essay, "Women Before Hell's Gate: Survivors of the Holocaust and their Memoirs." He discusses German-language Holocaust reminiscenses by Jewish authors who are as-yet relatively unknown to English-speaking readers and makes a strong case for their importance and relevance. The African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston is discussed by the Spanish scholar, Anna Maria Fraile-Marcos. Fraile-Marcos challenges the view that Hurston was an apolitical writer and examines the development of ethnic identity in Hurston's folkloric writings. One of the most informative essays in this collection is Obodimma Oha's "What God Has Put Asunder." He discusses how the Niger river has divided the people of Nigeria into two ethnicities and how inter-ethnic cooperation is low despite subversive pressures from Christianity, urbanization, and Western education.