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Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tosta, Antonio Luciano de Andrade, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- National characteristics in literature.
- Nationalism and literature--America.
- Nationalism and literature.
- America--Literatures--History and criticism.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas explores how a collection of contemporary novels calls attention to the impact of ethnicity on national identities in the Americas.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Native American, Hybridity, and Mestiçagem in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Breviário das Terras do Brasil and Laura Esquivel's Malinche
- Chapter Two: Escaping the Nation?
- Chapter Three: Jewish Puzzles
- Chapter Four: Memory, Difference, and the Struggle for Belonging in Jorge J. Okubaro's O Súdito: (Banzai, Massateru!) and Joy Kogawa's Obasan
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Permissions
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tosta, Antonio Luciano de Andrade, author. Confluence narratives
- ISBN:
- 1-61148-755-2
- 1-61148-756-0
- OCLC:
- 960040972
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