Tales of Burning Love | Social Concerns
While love is not easy anywhere for anyone, the Native American heritage of Jack and Dot Mauser in Tales of Burning Love is a complicating factor. Jack imagines that the only reason to acknowledge his Native American heritage is if he is defeated in life, and so, like many African-Americans at the turn of the century, he spends much of the novel "passing," sometimes as a white contractor or a white singer. For Jack to achieve an integration that a lifetime of hopeless temporary fixes never provided, he needs to acknowledge his Indian mother, the foundation of his character and a...
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