Reconstituting Americans
Subtitle: liberal multiculturalism and identity difference in post-1960s literature
By: Megan Obourn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780230112476
Subjects: Multiculturalism in literature; History and criticism; Liberalism in literature; Cultural pluralism in literature; American literature; Citizenship in literature; Minority authors; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Description: Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychic distantiation: Audre Lorde, traumatic formalism, and new social movement identities; title: Hybrid distantiation: uses of sexuality in the fiction of Arturo Islas; title: Inter(national) distantiation: Jamaica Kincaid, Reginald McKnight and the cosmopolitan novel; title: Academic investments in liberal multiculturalism: Bharati Mukherjee's representational vs. distantiative aesthetics; title: Internal distantiation in the 21st century.