From Shadow to Presence : Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature.
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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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Series: | Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature (CAEAL), 1.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: US ethnic identities from cultural nationalism to trans-nationalism; I: Impassioned discourse and "passionate politics": cultural nationalism and the ethnic revival; II: Summoning a new subject: "ethnic feminists"; III: Borderlands/contact zones: "reworlding" ethnicity; IV: Diasporic identities: breaking and re-making ethnicity; Afterword: the wheel keeps on turning; Notes; Bibliography; Index.