Multicultural American literature : comparative black, native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions / A. Robert Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, A. Robert, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

Minorities--United States--Intellectual life.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612277);A full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative, this book covers the writing - in both fiction and autobiography - of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Lesley Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jessica Hagedorn. Taking a cultural studies perspective, A. Robert Lee recognises the context of politics and popular culture and draws on the visual as well as the literary spectrum.This is the first book of its kind - while there are books available which introduce one or other of the ethnic traditions, no one has yet considered them in comparative terms in a single volume. As such it will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in multicultural American literature.Selling PointsFirst single volume comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writingTimely, wide-ranging and informativeCovers both fiction and autobiography"

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Landmarks

2 Selves

3 Afro-America

4 'I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen'

5 Chicanismo, La Raza, Aztlan

6 Eat a Bowl of Tea

7 Sites

8 Island America

9 The Postmodern Turn

10 Epilogue

Primary Bibliography

Selected Secondary Scholarship

Selected Literary Anthologies

Bibliographic and Reference Studies

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474470193

147447019X