From Shadow to Presence
Subtitle: Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature. (CAEAL)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789042022171
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism : Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Social Science : Anthropology - Cultural
Description: "This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural. and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model."--Jacket.