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| Author | : Dean J. Franco |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780813925608 |
Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature.
| Author | : John Rocco Maitino |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
These critical essays, written specifically for instructors in literature courses, focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American.
| Author | : Helena Grice |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2001-06-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780719057632 |
This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated.
| Author | : Emmanuel S. Nelson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1610698819 |
Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. The work features engaging topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives. Entries provide historical overviews of literary periods along with profiles of major authors and great works, including Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, A Raisin in the Sun, American Born Chinese, and The House on Mango Street. The book also provides concise overviews of genres not often featured in textbooks, like the Chinese American novel, African American young adult literature, Mexican American autobiography, and Cuban American poetry.
| Author | : Swati Rana |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1469659484 |
A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.
| Author | : M. Stewart |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2009-11-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230101526 |
Esteemed contributors expand the range of possibilities for reading, understanding, and teaching children's literature as ethnic literature rather than children's literature in this ambitious collection.
| Author | : Junot Díaz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2008-09-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1594483299 |
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
| Author | : Robert Henry Moser |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0813550572 |
Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants have had a significant presence in North America since the nineteenth century. Recently, Brazilians have also established vibrant communities in the U.S. This anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the writings of these diverse Portuguese-speaking, or "Luso-American" voices. Historically linked by language, colonial experience, and cultural influence, yet ethnically distinct, Luso-Americans have often been labeled an "invisible minority." This collection seeks to address this lacuna, with a broad mosaic of prose, poetry, essays, memoir, and other writings by more than fifty prominent literary figures--immigrants and their descendants, as well as exiles and sojourners. It is an unprecedented gathering of published, unpublished, forgotten, and translated writings by a transnational community that both defies the stereotypes of ethnic literature, and embodies the drama of the immigrant experience.
| Author | : Lyn Di Iorio Sandín |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137329246 |
A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories.
| Author | : John Ernest |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2022-06-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108487394 |
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
