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Title Beyond the borders : American literature and post-colonial theory / edited by Deborah L. Madsen
Published London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003

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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
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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