Complicating Constructions - Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts

Informationen zum Autor Edited by David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker Klappentext This volume of collected essays is an important contribution to contemporary understandings of race and ethnicity, offering truly multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors--from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte--these essays provide a vital supplement to the critical literary canon, mapping a newly variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between "ethnic" and "nonethnic" literatures. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that offers multiethnic! historically comparative! and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors - from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte - it maps a variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' literatures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Other contributors include Jesse Aleman! Ariel Balter! Olivia Castellano! AnnaMarie Christiansen! Georgina Dodge! Tracy Floreani! Joe Lockard! Edwin J. McAllister! Sheree Meyer! William Over! Jeffrey F. L. Partridge! Chauncey Ridley! Derek Parker Royal! Alexander W. Schultheis! Andrea Tinnenmeyer! and Jose L. Torres-Padilla.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David S. Thacker Goldstein, David S. Thaker Goldstein, Audrey B. Thaker
• Collaboration: David S Goldstein (Editeur), David S. Goldstein (Editeur), Audrey B Thacker (Editeur), Audrey B. Thacker (Editeur)
• Edition: University Of Washington Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780295988351
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98835-1
• Pages: 352
• Thèmes: American Ethnic and Cultural S; American Ethnic and Cultural S; American Ethnic and Cultural Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général