Postcolonial theory and the United States : race, ethnicity, and literature
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the world may be in a "transnational moment." Indeed, we are increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s. Displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings, they are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers. Included are more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial and ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. -- from back cover
Print Book, English, ©2000
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, ©2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xx, 471 pages ; 24 cm
9781578062515, 9781578062522, 1578062519, 1578062527
43296792
On the borders between U.S. studies and postcolonial theory / Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt
Postcolonialism, ideology, and Native American literature / Arnold Krupat
"Where, by the way, is this train going?" : a case for Black (cultural) studies / Mae G. Henderson
Refiguring Aztlán / Rafael Pérez-Torres
Denationalization reconsidered : Asian American cultural criticism at a theoretical crossroads / Sau-ling C. Wong
Indian literacy, U.S. colonialism, and literary criticism / Maureen Konkle
Capitalism, black (under)development, and the production of the African-American novel in the 1850s / Carla L. Peterson
Postcolonial anxiety in classic U.S. literature / Laurence Buell
Romancing the empire : the embodiment of American masculinity in the popular historical novel of 1890s / Amy Kaplan
Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl : race and region in the writings of Charles W. Chesnutt / Anne Fleischmann
Postcolonialism after W.E.B. Du Bois / Kenneth Mastern
How (!) is an Indian? A contest of stories, round 2 / Jana Sequoya Magdaleno
Revisioning our Kumblas : transforming feminist and nationalist agendas in three Caribbean women's texts / Rhonda Cobham
Arab-Americans and the meanings of race / Lisa Suhair Majaj
Broken English memories : languages of the trans-colony / Juan Flores
"Born-again Filipino" : Filipino American identity and Asian panethnicity / Leny Mendoza Strobel
South Asian American literature : "Off the turnpike" of Asian America / Lavina Dhingra shankar and Rajini Srikanth
Can you go home again? : transgression and transformation in African-American women's and Chicana literary practice / Inés Salazar
Hybridity in the Americas : reading Condé, Mukherjee, and Hawthorne / Bruce Simon
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