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

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 name...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eesni, Jelena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature (CAEAL), 1.
Temas:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
American literature > Minority authors
Ethnicity in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: US ethnic identities from cultural nationalism to trans-nationalism; I: Impassioned discourse and "passionate politics": cultural nationalism and the ethnic revival; II: Summoning a new subject: "ethnic feminists"; III: Borderlands/contact zones: "reworlding" ethnicity; IV: Diasporic identities: breaking and re-making ethnicity; Afterword: the wheel keeps on turning; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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