Do recent works by novelists such as Leslie Silko, Karen Yamashita, Anna Deveare Smith, Sergio de la Pava, Junot Diaz et al evince continuities with what Lawrence Buell has recently described (in The Dream of the Great American Novel) as the minoritarian turn in protagonist-centric narrative from the mid-twentieth century onward, or are such works better understood as harbingers of a new relatio