Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman - Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkne

Informationen zum Autor Scholar, critic and novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of American Literature at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is the author of Governor of the Northern Province, a novel, and contributes literary and cultural criticism to a series of North American publications, including Harper’s and The Walrus. Klappentext Read together, novels from a contemporary world writer (Salman Rushdie) and two modern American authors (Faulkner and Ellision) depict a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been conceived and imagined; these changes are revealed in the fiction of encounters between immigrants and natives. Zusammenfassung Read together, novels from a contemporary world writer (Salman Rushdie) and two modern American authors (Faulkner and Ellision) depict a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been conceived and imagined; these changes are revealed in the fiction of encounters between immigrants and natives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Imagining Nation and Imaginary Americans Chapter Two: Salman Rushdie’s American Idyll Chapter Three: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Immigrants Chapter Four: William Faulkner’s Durn Furriners Chapter Five: Americans You’ll Never (Have To) Be Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Randy Boyagoda, Randy (Ryerson University Boyagoda, Boyagoda Randy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2007
• EAN: 9780415979849
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97984-9
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form