The Postethnic Literary : : Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 /

The Postethnic Literary : : Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 / / Florian Sedlmeier.

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The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Sedlmeier, Florian,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 48
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface: Read, Again
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature
  • 1. Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form
  • 2. Copies, Lists, and Reading Publics in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker
  • 3. Exhaustion, Abstraction, and the Longing for Postethnic Literary Presence in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
  • Coda. The How is the What: Constellations of the Postethnic Literary This study has explored the epistemological conditions
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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