Multicultural American Literature : : Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions / / A. Robert Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lee, A. Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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"

Table of 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