Ethnic modernism and the making of US literary multiculturalism
By: Leif Sorensen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137584762
Subjects: Multiculturalism in literature; Intellectual life; Ethnicity in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Minorities; Modernism (Literature); Minority authors; Ethnic groups in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: untimely ancestors; title: Part I: Constrained emergence; title: Thwarted desire; title: Stifled voice; title: Failed alternatives; title: Impossible authorship; title: Part II: Recovering untimeliness; title: Interchapter: desperately seeking untimeliness; title: Exploding the hurston boom; title: Recovering negativity; title: The threat of un-recovery; title: The challenge of non-recovery; title: Conclusion: multiculturalism's unfinished work.