Beyond the borders : American literature and post-colonial theory /

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The contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of 'post-colonial' theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America -- for instance, from Native American, Latino, Blac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Madsen, Deborah L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.
Temas:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Minorities > United States > Intellectual life.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Postcolonialism > United States.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Diversité culturelle > États-Unis.
Diversité culturelle dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme > États-Unis.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Groupes ethniques dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
American literature > Minority authors.
Cultural pluralism.
Minorities > Intellectual life.
Postcolonialism.
Literatur
Ethnische Gruppe
Aufsatzsammlung
Minderheitenliteratur
Postkoloniale Literatur
Literaturtheorie
United States.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Ethnic literature and Post-colonialism. Indigenous literatures and postcolonial theories: reading from comparative frames / Chadwick Allen
  • pt. 2. Post-colonialism at home. "Going into a whole different country": postcolonial "nation"-hood in Native American literature / Lee Schweninger and Cara Cilano
  • Origin story: on being a white Native American(ist) / John Hunt Peacock, Jr.
  • Counter-discursive strategies in contemporary Chicana writing / Deborah L. Madsen
  • "At least one negro everywhere": African American travel writing / Alasdair Pettinger
  • Unsettling Asian American literature: when more than America is in the heart / Rajini Srikanth
  • Forging a postcolonial identity: women of Chinese ancestry writing in English / Mary Condé
  • Border crossings: Filipino American literature in the United States / Angela Noelle Williams
  • Reading the literatures of Hawaiʻi under an "Americanist" rubric / Paul Lyons.
  • pt. 3. Post-colonialism in the Border regions. Writing migrations: the place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican literature / Frances R. Aparicio
  • Diasporic disconnections: insurrection and forgetfulness in contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean women's literature / Myriam J.A. Chancy
  • Reclaiming maps and metaphors: Canadian first nations and narratives of place / Richard J. Lane
  • Thomas King and contemporary indigenous identities / Laura Peters
  • pt. 4. American post colonialism at home and abroad. Vietnamese and Vietnamese Amercian literature in a postcolonial context / Renny Christopher
  • Politics, pleasure, and intertextuality in contemporary Southeast Asian women's writing / Julie Shackford-Bradley
  • U.S. and US: American literatures of immigration and assimilation / Geraldine Stoneham.

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