Subjectformationafterrecoveryisadynamicprocess that mainlyinvolveswithtwoaspects: the ethnic AmericanBildungsromanand reclamation ofAmericanness andFilipinoness.
"And who also are comfortable with their Americanness on the one hand and comfortable with Islam on the other hand."
VOA: special.2010.08.05
Many of Mr Freedman's protagonists are caught between Americanness, which threatens their identity as Jews, and orthodoxy, which threatens their sense of themselves as modern-minded Americans.