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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Main Author: Eesni, Jelena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature (CAEAL), 1.
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Summary: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 named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model. Dra.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
ISBN:9789401204507
9401204500
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.