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American literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literature and globalization --- American literature. --- Literature and globalization. --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Literatur --- Minderheitenliteratur --- Literatur. --- Postmoderne. --- Globalisierung. --- Minderheitenliteratur. --- Postmodernism --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Minority authors --- Minority authors. --- Postmodernismus. --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999. --- United States. --- USA.
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In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought with them processes of modernization that were already well advanced elsewhere. Yiddish and African writers reacted to the liberating potential of modernity and the burdens of imperial authority
Yiddish literature --- African literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Comparative --- Jewish literature --- History and criticism. --- Yiddish and African. --- African and Yiddish. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- African languages --- Sociology of literature
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Examining autobiographical texts by Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X), Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People), Amiri Baraka (The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones), and Richard Rodriguez (Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and Brown), Walker questions the often rosy views and simplistic binary conceptions of religious conversion. Her reading of these texts takes into account the conflict and serial changes the authors experience in a society that marginalizes them, the manne
Religion and literature --- Self-realization in literature. --- Conversion in literature. --- Autobiography --- American prose literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- African American autobiography --- Autobiography of African Americans --- American literature --- History --- Mexican American authors. --- African American authors. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Moral and religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Afro-American authors
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"This book examines the rhetorical strategy of using hybrid narratives, which permits an author to bridge cultures via literary technique. Strategies covered include multilingualism, magical realism, ironic humor, the use of mythological figures from the characters' heritage cultures, and the presentation of different perspectives on landscapes and other spaces as related to ethnicity"--Provided by publisher.
American literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Littérature américaine --- Narration --- Ethnicité dans la littérature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Littératures --- Histoire et critique
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What kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke? How can we account for the continuing hold of the Bildungsroman as a model of analysis? Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examining closely the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde, the chapters foreground processes of constructing an alternative “art of living” which challenges the Bildungsroman ’s drive for either assimilation or ethnic homogeneity and pushes for new configurations of ethnic and American female identity. Drawing on feminist/gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, translation theory, queer theory, and disability studies, the book provides a theoretically engaged rethinking of the Bildungsroman ’s form and function. Addressing questions of aesthetics and politics, freedom and belonging, betrayal and responsibility, and tracing the Bildungsroman ’s links with life-writing forms such as immigrant narrative, mother-daughter story, biomythography, and illness narrative, the study outlines the various ways in which the novel of individual development becomes an appropriate site for the negotiation of several enduring and contentious tensions in ethnic American writing. Of potential interest to scholars of American literature, but also ethnic, feminist and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature and culture, the book demonstrates the Bildungsroman ’s ongoing relevance and expanded capacity of representation in an ethnic American and postcolonial context.
Ethnicity in literature --- Ethnicité dans la littérature --- Etnisch bewustzijn in de literatuur --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- American literature --- Women authors, American. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Language and culture --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Bildungsroman [American ] --- Women authors --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Cisneros, Sandra --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Lorde, Audre --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bildungsromans, American --- American Bildungsromans
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American poetry --- American poetry --- American poetry --- Poetry --- Experimental poetry, American --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie --- Poésie expérimentale américaine --- Identité (psychologie) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- 20e siècle --- 21e siècle --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Aspect social --- Histoire et critique --- dans la littérature --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie --- Poésie expérimentale américaine --- Identité (psychologie) --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- 21e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect social --- Etats-Unis --- Histoire et critique --- dans la littérature
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Borderlands in literature --- Borderlands in motion pictures --- Cities and towns in literature --- Cities and towns in motion pictures --- Espace dans la littérature --- Espace dans le cinéma --- Grenslanden in de film --- Grenslanden in de literatuur --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans le cinéma --- Plaats (Filosofie) in de film --- Plaats (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Place (Philosyphy) in motion pictures --- Ruimte in de film --- Ruimte in de literatuur --- Régions frontalières dans la littérature --- Régions frontalières dans le cinéma --- Space in literature --- Space in motion pictures --- Steden in de film --- Steden in de literatuur --- Villes dans la littérature --- Villes dans le cinéma --- American literature --- Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Borderlands in literature. --- Borderlands in motion pictures. --- Boundaries in literature. --- Boundaries in motion pictures. --- Cities and towns in literature. --- Cities and towns in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures. --- Space (Architecture) in literature. --- Space in literature. --- Space in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 21st century --- 20th century --- American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism --- American literature - 21st century - History and criticism --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
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Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing constitutes an explicit answer to the urgent call for a comparative study of American autobiography. This collection of essays ostensibly intends to cut across cultural, “racial” and/or “ethnic” boundaries, introducing the concept of “transethnicity” and arguing for its increasing validity in the ever-changing field of American Studies. Accordingly, the comparative analysis in Selves in Dialogue is implemented not by juxtaposing essays that pay “separate but equal” attention to specific “monoethnic” or “monocultural” traditions—as has been the usual strategy in book-length publications of this sort—, but by critically engaging with two or more different traditions in every single essay. Mixing rather than segregating. The transethnic approach proposed in this collection does not imply erasing the very difference and diversity that makes American autobiographies all the more thrilling to read and study. Group-specific research of an “intra-ethnic” nature should and will continue to thrive. And yet, the field of American Studies is now ready to indulge more freely, and more knowledgeably, in transethnic explorations of life writing, in an attempt to delineate both the divergences and the similarities between the different autobiographies written in the US. Because of its unusual perspective, Selves in Dialogue can be of interest not only for specialists in life writing, but also for those working in the larger fields of American Literature, Ethnic Studies or American Studies.
American prose literature --- Autobiography. --- Ethnic relations. --- Minority authors. --- Authors --- Minorities --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Race relations --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- American literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- United States --- United States. --- AB --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattn --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērik --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americk --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheirice --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- ZSA
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