The logical structure of hybridity in American ethnic fiction

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This article is an attempt to analyze the representation of some literary responses of ethnic American writers in the US and more specifically achieve recognition from the hegemonic subject and go on to form part of the American literary canon.

Therefore, one of the objectives of this article is to analyze the hybridity of ethnic-American writers and the representations they construct from the cultures of their native and adopted countries.

The majority of US-athnic writers are not newcomers in American literary scene.

Many of them were either bom in the US, "brought or immigrated to the United States, but all share the fact of writing in English and publishing in the US, a fact that has disrupted the traditional literary cannon of this country.

Consequently, many of them have come to form a 'hyphenated cultural identity." Key Words: hybridity, ethnic-American, hyphenated cultural identityliterary canon