Author: John Rocco Maitino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
These critical essays, written specifically for instructors in literature courses, focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American.
Ethnic American Literature
Author: Dean J. Franco
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature.
Teaching American Ethnic Literatures
Author: John Rocco Maitino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
These critical essays, written specifically for instructors in literature courses, focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
These critical essays, written specifically for instructors in literature courses, focus on longer works of prose in each of the four major ethnic literatures of the United States: Native American, Mexican American, Asian American, and African American.
Ethnic American Literature
Author: Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610698819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. The work features engaging topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives. Entries provide historical overviews of literary periods along with profiles of major authors and great works, including Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, A Raisin in the Sun, American Born Chinese, and The House on Mango Street. The book also provides concise overviews of genres not often featured in textbooks, like the Chinese American novel, African American young adult literature, Mexican American autobiography, and Cuban American poetry.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610698819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. The work features engaging topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives. Entries provide historical overviews of literary periods along with profiles of major authors and great works, including Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, A Raisin in the Sun, American Born Chinese, and The House on Mango Street. The book also provides concise overviews of genres not often featured in textbooks, like the Chinese American novel, African American young adult literature, Mexican American autobiography, and Cuban American poetry.
Race Characters
Author: Swati Rana
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469659484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.
American Ethnic Literatures
Author: David R. Peck
Publisher: Magill Bibliographies
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Magill Bibliographies
ISBN:
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Ethnic Passages
Author: Thomas J. Ferraro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226244419
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Farraro (English, Duke U.) defends immigration narratives from their reputation of having stereotyped characters and plots. He argues that they are manifestations of a rebirth paradigm and draw on all the literary tools employed by other genres. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226244419
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Farraro (English, Duke U.) defends immigration narratives from their reputation of having stereotyped characters and plots. He argues that they are manifestations of a rebirth paradigm and draw on all the literary tools employed by other genres. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
American Ethnic Writers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Covers numerous ethnic writers and their works. All major American ethnicities are covered: African American, Asian American, Jewish American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Covers numerous ethnic writers and their works. All major American ethnicities are covered: African American, Asian American, Jewish American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American.
Beginning Ethnic American Literatures
Author: Helena Grice
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated.
American Ethnic Literatures
Author: David R. Peck
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810827929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A guide to the range of creative and scholarly work in four major American ethnic literatures.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810827929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A guide to the range of creative and scholarly work in four major American ethnic literatures.
Asian American Literary Studies
Author: Guiyou Huang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Discusses Asian American literature from various international perspectives. This volume covers a range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a variety of ethnic groups: Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Vietnamese.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Discusses Asian American literature from various international perspectives. This volume covers a range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a variety of ethnic groups: Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Vietnamese.