Description |
1 online resource (vi, 259 pages) |
Contents |
pt. 1. Ethnic literature and Post-colonialism. Indigenous literatures and postcolonial theories: reading from comparative frames / Chadwick Allen -- pt. 2. Post-colonialism at home. "Going into a whole different country": postcolonial "nation"-hood in Native American literature / Lee Schweninger and Cara Cilano -- Origin story: on being a white Native American(ist) / John Hunt Peacock, Jr. -- Counter-discursive strategies in contemporary Chicana writing / Deborah L. Madsen -- "At least one negro everywhere": African American travel writing / Alasdair Pettinger -- Unsettling Asian American literature: when more than America is in the heart / Rajini Srikanth -- Forging a postcolonial identity: women of Chinese ancestry writing in English / Mary Condé -- Border crossings: Filipino American literature in the United States / Angela Noelle Williams -- Reading the literatures of Hawaiʻi under an "Americanist" rubric / Paul Lyons |
|
pt. 3. Post-colonialism in the Border regions. Writing migrations: the place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican literature / Frances R. Aparicio -- Diasporic disconnections: insurrection and forgetfulness in contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean women's literature / Myriam J.A. Chancy -- Reclaiming maps and metaphors: Canadian first nations and narratives of place / Richard J. Lane -- Thomas King and contemporary indigenous identities / Laura Peters -- pt. 4. American post colonialism at home and abroad. Vietnamese and Vietnamese Amercian literature in a postcolonial context / Renny Christopher -- Politics, pleasure, and intertextuality in contemporary Southeast Asian women's writing / Julie Shackford-Bradley -- U.S. and US: American literatures of immigration and assimilation / Geraldine Stoneham |
Summary |
The contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of 'post-colonial' theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America -- for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literatures from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism -- from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam. In this way the contributors explore key questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorised within 'American literature' if writing on one side of the border, but as 'Canadian' and 'post-colonial' if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation -- issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
In |
Academic Library |
Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
|
|
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
|
|
Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life
|
|
Cultural pluralism -- United States
|
|
Cultural pluralism in literature.
|
|
Postcolonialism -- United States
|
|
Postcolonialism in literature.
|
|
Ethnic groups in literature.
|
|
Ethnicity in literature.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
|
|
American literature -- Minority authors
|
|
Cultural pluralism
|
|
Cultural pluralism in literature
|
|
Ethnic groups in literature
|
|
Ethnicity in literature
|
|
Minorities -- Intellectual life
|
|
Postcolonialism
|
|
Postcolonialism in literature
|
|
Literatur
|
|
Ethnische Gruppe
|
|
Aufsatzsammlung
|
|
Minderheitenliteratur
|
|
Postkoloniale Literatur
|
|
Literaturtheorie
|
|
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
|
|
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
|
|
Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life.
|
|
Cultural pluralism -- United States.
|
|
Cultural pluralism in literature.
|
|
Postcolonialism -- United States.
|
|
Postcolonialism in literature.
|
|
Ethnic groups in literature.
|
|
Ethnicity in literature.
|
|
United States
|
|
USA
|
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
Author |
Madsen, Deborah L., editor.
|
LC no. |
2003015398 |
ISBN |
9781435660700 |
|
1435660706 |
|
9781849644860 |
|
1849644861 |
|
9786611725457 |
|
6611725458 |