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Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Informed by postcolonial theory, this book analyzes a selection of novels from North and South Americas to discuss the impact of ethnicity in the construction of national identities, highlight the inherently transcultural aspect of the American character, and to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation.
List of contents
Introduction: Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation Making in the Americas
Chapter One: The Native American, Hybridity, and Mestiçagem in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Breviário das Terras do Brasil and Laura Esquivel's Malinche
Chapter Two: Escaping the Nation? African American History as (Trans)National History in Luís Fulano de Tal's A Noite dos Cristais and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
Chapter Three: Jewish Puzzles: Identity Search, Memory, and History in Moacyr Scliar's A Estranha Nação de Rafael Mendes and Ricardo Feierstein's Mestizo
Chapter Four: World War II and the Persecution of Identity: Memory, Difference, and the Struggle for Belonging in Jorge J. Okubaro's O Súdito: (Banzai, Massateru!) and Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Epilogue: Confluence Narratives and the Future of Inter-American Studies
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About the Author
About the author
By Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
