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| | Commentary Magazine - A Dance in the Sun, by Dan Jacobson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | ...A Dance in the Sun is one of the concentrated fables of individual moral responsibility which have been in vogue among younger writers in the United States since 1939... |
 | | ...A Dance in the Sun, on the contrary, comes from and describes an explosive colonial situation of increasing inequality which might seem more appropriately described in such class-conflict, mass-movement fiction as The Octopus, The Grapes of Wrath, or Germinal, or at least in the broadly conceived social novel of the central English tradition... |
 | | ...A Dance in the Sun, told in the first person, is developed with great economy of means and great simplicity of narrative technique, and observes the classic unities... |
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