The Invention of Ethnicity.

The Invention of Ethnicity.

This collection of essays attempts to provide a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also its underlying psychological, historical, social and cultural forces.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sollors, Werner
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Subjects:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
American literature > Minority authors
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Minorities in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the Fourth of July in Sitka; Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity; An American Writer; A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses"; Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade; Defining the Race 1890-1930; Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self; Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale; Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics; Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives; Comping for Count Basie; "Is Ethnicity Obsolete?"; Notes; List of Contributors.

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