Author: Dean J. Franco
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Ethnic American Literature
Author: Dean J. Franco
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Teaching American Ethnic Literatures
Author: John Rocco Maitino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
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.
Ethnic American Literature
Author: Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610698819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610698819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
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.
Race Characters
Author: Swati Rana
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.
Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures
Author: Lyn Di Iorio SandÃn
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137329246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137329246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
American Ethnic Literatures
Author: David R. Peck
Publisher: Magill Bibliographies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Magill Bibliographies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Race in American Literature and Culture
Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
Luso-American Literature
Author: Robert Henry Moser
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813550572
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813550572
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
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.
American Ethnic Literatures
Author: David R. Peck
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810827929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A guide to the range of creative and scholarly work in four major American ethnic literatures.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810827929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A guide to the range of creative and scholarly work in four major American ethnic literatures.
Ethnic Literary Traditions in American Children's Literature
Author: M. Stewart
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.