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- Title
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Race, Ethnicity, and Women's Choices in Something New and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
- Authors
IANCU, ANCA-LUMINIŢA
- Abstract
The movies My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and Something New (2006) interrogate various ethnic and racial traditions and expectations concerning interracial and intercultural relationships from the female perspective. The two romantic comedies illustrate how the female protagonists' decisions to date and marry men outside their ethnic and racial communities create tension and resistance among their family members and circle of friends, revealing an array of cultural and racial differences. By looking at the subtle ways in which these movies depict the challenges posed by interethnic dating/marriage in terms of gender, race, class, and ethnicity, especially in the female protagonists' family environment, this essay sets out to explore how the protagonists' choices to transcend cultural and racial borders may represent a new attempt to assuage the concerns regarding the complexity of interethnic relationships by including the option of individual female choice and agency.
- Subjects
GUESS Who's Coming to Dinner (Film); MY Big Fat Greek Wedding (Film); SOMETHING New (Film)
- Publication
East-West Cultural Passage, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
1583-6401
- Publication type
Article