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Selves in dialogue : a transethnic approach to American life writing /
Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing constitutes an explicit answer to the urgent call for a comparative study of American autobiography. This collection of essays ostensibly intends to cut across cultural, "racial" and/or "ethnic" boundaries, intro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Colección: | Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ;
5. Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature (CAEAL), 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Selves in Dialogue: An Introduction; 1. Identity Cards: Autobiography and Critical Practice; 2. Self and Nation in Franklin's Autobiography and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior; 3. Ethnic Authorship and the Autobiographical Act: Zitkala-a, Sui Sin Far, and the Crafting of Authorial Identity; 4. "We, Too, Sing America": The Construction of American Subjectivity in African American Migration and European Immigrant Autobiographies.
- 5. Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands / La Frontera6. Memory in Motion: The "Double Narratives" of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Samuel R. Delany's The Motion of Light in Water; 7. Autobiographical Writing on Politics in the Sin State: Latina and Basque American Perspectives; 8. Puerto Rican and Dominican Self-Portraits and their Frames: The "Autobiographical" Fiction of Esmeralda Santiago, Junot Díaz, and Julia Álvarez.
- 9. Living in the Taste of Things: Food, Self and Family in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Leslie Li's Daughter of HeavenBibliography; Contributors; Index.