Ethnic life writing and histories
Subtitle: genres, performance, and culture
By: Rocío G. Davis, Jaume Aurell, Ana Beatriz Delgado (eds.).
Contributors: Davis, Rocio G.; Aurell i Cardona, Jaume.; Delgado, Ana Beatriz.
Series: Contributions to Asian American literary studies -- v. 4
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783825802578
Subjects: Ethnic groups in literature.; Ethnic relations in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; Literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.; Minorities -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Minorities in literature.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ethnic life writing and historical mediation: approaches and interventions / Rocío G. Davis, Jaume Aurell, Ana Beatriz Delgado; title: Academic and other memoirs: memory, poetry, and the body / Shirley Geok-lin Lim; title: My name is Carmen but this story is not mine: an introduction to "Searching for Carmen: a Mexican-American odyssey" / Carmen Pearson; title: Remembered community: memory and nationality in Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for forgetfulness / Terry DeHay; title: "No nation woman" writes her self: war and the return home in Meena Alexander's memoirs / Lavina D. Shanker; title: At home in the diaspora? Abraham Verghese's and Mira Nair's My own country / Pin-chia Feng; title: Looking back: diasporic longing in Citizen 13660 and Persepolis / Min Hyoung Song; title: Reconstructing the woman behind the photograph: Denise Chong's The girl in the picture / Eleanor Ty; title: "Ejemplos metafóricos": self-presentation and history in Chicana autobiography and life-narrative / A. Gabriel Meléndez; title: Writing the fragmented self in Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autobiography of a brown buffalo / Philip Bracher; title: Referential ambiguities or ambiguous referentialities: the interactions of history, language, and image in Victor Villaseñor's and Sheila and Sandra Ortiz Taylor's family autobiographies / Angelika Köhler; title: Asian American narratives of return: Nisei representations of prewar and wartime Japan / Patricia P. Chu; title: Mediating autobiography and criticism: Ihab Hassan and Edward Said / Ioana Luca; title: Ethnic life writing in an era of postethnicity: "Maxine Hong Kingston" and "Alice Walker" at the millennium / Pirjo Ahokas.