Saroyan's "Black Tartars": Frame Narrative, Nationalisma nd Ethnic Cleansing Aguilera Linde, Mauricio Damian This article offers an examination of William Saroyan’s stance on nationalism through the analysis of “The Black Tartars” (1936), a story built on the technique of embedding which shows, through the layering of stories, two distinct models: one based upon primordialist notions of race; the other resting on the principle of ethnolinguistic homogeneity and resulting in the birth of the modern nation-state. By examining the dialogicity implicit in the frame narrative, I propose to examine Karachi’s tale as an example of “parodic skaz” which stands at odd with the author’s ideology and operates as a concave mirror reflection of the tragic fate hovering over stateless minorities. 2025-01-16T08:11:45Z 2025-01-16T08:11:45Z 2023-12-20 journal article Journal of English Studies (21): 3-17 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/99310 https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5615 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional