From shadow to presence : representations of ethnicity in contemporary American literature / / Jelena Šesnić.

This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously name...

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Superior document:Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 1
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Jelena Šesnić
  • Acknowledgments / Jelena Šesnić
  • US ethnic identities from cultural nationalism to trans-nationalism / Jelena Šesnić
  • Impassioned discourse and “passionate politics”: cultural nationalism and the ethnic revival / Jelena Šesnić
  • Summoning a new subject: “ethnic feminists” / Jelena Šesnić
  • Borderlands/contact zones: “reworlding” ethnicity / Jelena Šesnić
  • Diasporic identities: breaking and re-making ethnicity / Jelena Šesnić
  • Afterword: the wheel keeps on turning / Jelena Šesnić
  • Notes / Jelena Šesnić
  • Bibliography / Jelena Šesnić
  • Index / Jelena Šesnić.