From Shadow to Presence: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature

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Rodopi, 2007 - Broj stranica: 285
This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model.
Drawing extensively on psychoanalytic theory, feminist/gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and its revision of ethnography, the book offers a fresh, engaged, theoretically, and analytically well-rehearsed overview of the distinctive and determining features of a rapidly expanding domain of contemporary US literary production, namely, ethnic literatures. Of potential interest to scholars of American/US literature, but also minority and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature, the book attempts an interethnic comparative approach to well- and lesser-known texts. Among the authors represented are Shawn Wong, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Roberto Fernández and Edwidge Danticat.

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Acknowledgments
7
Impassioned discourse and passionate politics cultural nationalism
29
Emotionalism and cultural nationalism
44
Homebase 1979 6 Oscar Zeta Acosta a misfit nationalist 59
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Summoning a new subject ethnic feminists
83
Morrisons Sula 1973
102
Allegories of gender and nation in Kingstons The Woman Warrior 1976
115
Borderlandscontact zones reworlding ethnicity
133
Indian country
147
colonized sexuality
169
Diasporic identities breaking and remaking ethnicity
185
captives of history
214
the wheel keeps on turning
237
Bibliography
259
Index
275
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