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Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of "America's Century." In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries to show how literature and mass media worked to mold concepts of ethnicity in the 1950s. Revisiting well-known novels of the period, such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, as well as less-studied works, such as William Saroyan's Rock Wagram and C. Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song (the original source of the more famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical), Floreani investigates how the writing of ethnic identity called into question the ways in which signifiers of Americanness also inherently privileged whiteness. By putting these novels into conversation with popular media narratives such as I Love Lucy, the author offers an in-depth examination of the boundaries and possibilities for participating in American culture in an era that greatly influenced national ideas about identity. While midcentury mass media presented an undeniably engaging vision of American success, national belonging, and guidelines for cultural citizenship, Floreani argues that minority writers and artists were, at the same time, engaging that vision and implicitly participating in its construction.
Immigrants in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- American fiction --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors
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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African American writers—C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright—Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms “alienage,” as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of the "American Century.” Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today.
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Les études postcoloniales sont envisagées ici à partir de leurs sources (French theory, subaltern studies de Delhi, cultural studies, écrits anticoloniaux de Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Aimé Césaire, Albert Memmi) et de leurs liens avec d'autres champs de recherche (queer studies, Black studies). Le nom du collectif fait référence à un ouvrage fondateur : The Empire writes back (1989).
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Literature, Modern --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Littérature moderne --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- French literature --- Minority authors --- Theory, etc. --- Congresses --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature moderne --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme. --- Postcolonialism in literature - Congresses --- Literature, Modern - History and criticism - Congresses --- Literature, Modern - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- French literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. - Congresses --- French literature - Foreign countries - History and criticism - Congresses --- French literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses
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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism. The national identity of the United States was transformed between 1880 and 1930 due to mass immigration, imperial expansion, the rise of Jim Crow, and the beginning of the suffrage movement. A generation of women writers and reformers-particularly women of color-contributed to these debates by imagining new national narratives that put minorities at the center of American identity. Jane Addams, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), María Cristina Mena, and Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) embraced the images of the United States-and increasingly the world-as an interracial nuclear family. They also reframed public debates through narratives depicting interracial encounters as longstanding, unacknowledged liaisons between white men and racialized women that produced an incestuous, mixed-race nation. By mobilizing the sexual taboos of incest and miscegenation, these women writers created political allegories of kinship and community. Through their criticisms of the nation's history of exploitation and colonization, they also imagined a more inclusive future. As Jolie A. Sheffer identifies the contemporary template for American multiculturalism in the works of turn-of-the century minority writers, she uncovers a much more radical history than has previously been considered.
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In a pioneering approach to classic U.S. Literature, Jeffrey Einboden traces the global afterlives of literary icons from Washington Irving to Walt Whitman and analyses 19th-century American authors as they now appear in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian translation. Crossing linguistic, cultural and national boundaries, Middle Eastern renditions of U.S. texts are interrogated as critical readings and illuminating revisions of their American sources. Why does Moby-Dick both invite and resist Arabic translation? What are the religious and aesthetic implications of re-writing Leaves of Grass in Hebrew? How does rendering The Scarlet Letter into Persian transform Hawthorne's infamous symbol? Uncovering the choices and changes made by prominent Middle Eastern translators, this study is the first to reveal the significance of 'orienting' American classics, demonstrating how such a process offers a valuable lens for reconsidering U.S. literary origins, accenting and amplifying facets of the American Renaissance customarily hidden.
American literature --- American literature. --- Ethnic literature (American) --- Minority literature (American) --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Minority authors. --- History and criticism. --- Translations into Arabic. --- Translations into Hebrew. --- Translations into Persian.
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On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960's novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to "make sense," these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice--an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known. The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social theorists.
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism. --- Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Sexual minorities in literature. --- Sexual minorities' writings, American -- History and criticism. --- Sexual minorities' writings, American --- Gays' writings, American --- American literature --- Sexual minorities in literature --- Homosexuality in literature --- Race in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- American sexual minorities' writings --- History and criticism --- Minority authors --- Gay people's writings, American
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Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural' literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature' and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries..Back cover.
Sociology of literature --- Netherlands --- Scandinavia and Iceland --- Belgium --- Scandinavian literature --- Dutch literature --- Flemish literature --- Multiculturalism --- Multilingualism --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Multilingualism and literature --- Immigrants' writings --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism --- Communication interculturelle --- Multiculturalisme --- Dans la littérature --- Ethnic groups in literature -- Study and teaching. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Multicultural education -- Netherlands. --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- 82:3 --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatur. --- Sprache. --- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft. --- Skandinavien. --- Beneluxländer. --- Multiculturalisme in de letterkunde --- Scandinavische letterkunde --- Nederlandstalige letterkunde --- Meertaligheid --- Nederland --- Vlaanderen --- Scandinavië --- auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Multiculturalisme in de letterkunde. --- Nederland. --- Vlaanderen. --- Scandinavië. --- auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen. --- Auteurs uit minderheidsgroepen. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Communication interculturelle. --- Dans la littérature. --- Scandinavian literature. --- Writings of immigrants --- Literature --- Literature and multilingualism --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Cultural diversity policy --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism policy --- Ethnic diversity policy --- Social policy --- Anti-racism --- Ethnicity --- Cultural fusion --- Belgian literature (Dutch) --- Belgian literature --- Government policy --- Scandinavian literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Dutch literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Flemish literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Congresses --- Multiculturalism - Scandinavia - Congresses --- Multiculturalism - Benelux countries - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Scandinavia - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Benelux countries - Congresses --- Multiculturalism in literature - Congresses --- Multilingualism and literature - Congresses --- Immigrants' writings - History and criticism - Congresses --- Emigration and immigration in literature - Congresses
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Visant à prolonger le débat suscité par la publication du manifeste « Pour une littérature-monde en français », Trajectoires et dérives de la littérature-monde. Poétiques de la relation et du divers dans les espaces francophones propose de saisir créateurs associés à la « périphérie » dans une nouvelle dynamique transversale, transnationale, indépendante de la médiation d’un centre dominant. C'est dire que la « littérature-monde », tout en mettant en cause les dispositifs traditionnels des systèmes et des champs inhérents aux configurations littéraires nationales, cautionne le renforcement d’un espace inter-systémique d’échanges dans lequel les aires francophones de la périphérie nouent entre elles des relations aussi bien institutionnelles que discursives. Affranchie de tout impérialisme culturel, la littérature-monde cherche de la sorte à promouvoir des pratiques inclusives d’insertion et de communication entre littératures dans l’optique d’un échiquier réorganisé du monde des lettres. Elle s’attaque au mythe du monolithisme culturel, se veut une critique de l’état actuel élitiste du domaine littéraire centriste qui se maintient dans une ségrégation délibérée ou inconsciente par rapport aux auteurs francophones et francophiles. Par ce livre, nous espérons apporter une contribution pertinente aux échanges théoriques et empiriques entourant la « littérature-monde », concept devenu incontournable pour quiconque est soucieux du développement et de l’avenir de la littérature de langue française.
African literature (French) --- Caribbean literature (French) --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- French literature --- French-Canadian literature --- Literature --- Minority authors --- North African literature (French) --- Transnationalism in literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Canadian literature (French) --- North African literature --- Minorities --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism --- French-speaking countries --- African authors
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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
American literature --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Indians in literature. --- Intercultural communication in literature. --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Indians in literature --- Intercultural communication in literature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Minorities in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Minority authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Mexican American Border Region --- In literature. --- 20th century --- United States --- Paredes, Américo --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cather, Willa Sibert --- Hemingway, Ernest --- Lawrence, David Herbert --- Mathews, John Joseph
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Despite a stated commitment to cross-cultural solidarity, trauma theory—an area of cultural investigation that emerged out of the 'ethical turn' affecting the humanities in the 1990s—is marked by a Eurocentric, monocultural bias. This book takes issue with the tendency of the founding texts of the field to marginalize or ignore traumatic experiences of non-Western or minority groups, and to take for granted the universal validity of definitions of trauma and recovery that have developed out of the history of Western modernity. Moreover, it questions the assumption that a modernist aesthetic of fragmentation and aporia is uniquely suited to the task of bearing witness to trauma, and criticizes the neglect of the connections between metropolitan and non-Western or minority traumas. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies, Postcolonial Witnessing contends that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.
English literature --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Wounds and injuries in literature. --- Literature and society. --- Littérature anglaise --- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Lésions et blessures dans la littérature --- Littérature et société --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Ecrivains issus des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Wounds and injuries in literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism --- Trauma (letterkunde) --- English-language literature --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde --- Postkolonialisme --- Engelse letterkunde --- Engelstalige landen --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Social aspects --- Trauma (letterkunde). --- English-language literature. --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde. --- Engelstalige landen. --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Littérature anglaise --- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Lésions et blessures dans la littérature --- Littérature et société --- Ecrivains issus des minorités --- Geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Minority authors&delete& --- English literature - Minority authors - History and criticism
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