Ethnic American Literature
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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 | : 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 | : A. Robert Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781578066445 |
Author | : Joseph T. Skerrett |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Longman |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Literature, Race and Ethnicity is a text-anthology of American literature organized around issues of race and ethnicity. Divided into nine units, the anthology gives focus to issues of race and ethnicity faced by members of different communities. Located at every section opening, introductions help readers to see issues within the general ideas of race and ethnicity. Throughout the book, attention to historical context allows readers to see ethnicity and race as a perennial American issue. Awareness of "whiteness" and white ethnicity helps readers to place themselves in the story. Includes well-written and accessible works by writers from many racial and ethnic communities. For those interested in literature and American studies.
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 | : 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 | : Maria Rice Bellamy |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813937973 |
Tracing the development of a new genre in contemporary American literature that was engendered in the civil rights, feminist, and ethnic empowerment struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, Bridges to Memory shows how these movements authorized African American and ethnic American women writers to reimagine the traumatic histories that form their ancestral inheritance and define their contemporary identities. Drawing on the concept of postmemory—a paradigm developed to describe the relationship that children of Holocaust survivors have to their parents' traumatic experiences—Maria Bellamy examines narrative representations of this inherited form of trauma in the work of contemporary African American and ethnic American women writers. Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, Bellamy shows how cultural context determines the ways in which traumatic history is remembered and transmitted to future generations. Taken together, these narratives of postmemory manifest the haunting presence of the past in the present and constitute an archive of textual witness and global relevance that builds cross-cultural understanding and ethical engagement with the suffering of others.
Author | : Bonnie TuSmith |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472082858 |
Challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism
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.
Author | : David Leiwei Li |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804741309 |
This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined.