Mis-Representation of Hispanic culture in Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat

Abstract

John Steinbeck, a prolific American novelist, centers most of his novels in Californian experiences. His Tortilla Flat is an excellent work in the field of American novel that reveals the Hispanic ethnic experience of 1920s and 30s. It appropriately treats the transitional phase in American history that is the Great Depression. The force Hispanic ethnicity had been destroyed their identity and the sense of self worth by Anglo-American society. Hispanic, tradition and culture were dominated and marginalized by the Anglo American system. Steinbeck is in the view of acquiring spiritual as well as economic empowerment as essential factors for Hispanic community to recover their identity and sense of self-worth.