The unsung stream : the ethnic continuum in U.S. literature and film, from John Rollin Ridge to John Sayles
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2012

The Unsung Stream : the Ethnic Continuum in U.S. Literature and Film, From John Rollin Ridge to John Sayles challenges the historical position of ethnic literature as perennially marginal and resistant. It traces a continuum in the historical construction of U.S. crime/western texts and their theoretical connections to specific contemporary aspects of the genre. It finds that critical concepts of identity and cultural adaptation applied to much ethnic cultural production today are not only outda