| Description |
xiii, 357 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Ethnographic Politics: The Uses of Memory in Ethnic Fiction / William Boelhower -- The Plural Self: The Politicization of Memory and Form in Three American Ethnic Autobiographies / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Telling History: Inventing Identity in Jewish American Fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Nostalgia and Ambiguity in Martha Lamont's "Crow and Her Seagull Slaves" / Toby C. S. Langen -- Oppression and Repression: Personal and Collective Memory in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / G. Thomas Couser -- Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Labor, Memory, and Identity in Ernest J. Gaines's Of Love and Dust / Herman Beavers -- Memory and the Matrix of History: The Poetics of Loss and Recovery in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Gurleen Grewal -- The Role of Memory in August Wilson's Four-Hundred-Year Autobiography / Sandra G. Shannon |
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Beyond Mimicry: The Poetics of Memory and Authenticity in Derek Walcott's Another Life / Sandra Pouchet Paquet -- The Politics of Memory: Remembering History in Alice Walker and Joy Kogawa / David Palumbo-Liu -- Producing History and Telling Stories: Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and Zeese Papanikolas's Buried Unsung / Yiorgos Kalogeras -- Yearning for the Past: The Dynamics of Memory in Sansei Internment Poetry / Stan Yogi -- Arab American Literature and the Politics of Memory / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Feathering the Serpent: Chicano Mythic "Memory" / Rafael Perez-Torres -- Chicanismo as Memory: The Fictions of Rudolfo Anaya, Nash Candelaria, Sandra Cisneros, and Ron Arias / A. Robert Lee |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Memory in literature.
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Ethnic relations in literature.
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Minorities in literature.
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Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History.
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Politics and literature -- United States.
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| Author |
Hogan, Robert E.
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Singh, Amritjit.
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Skerrett, Joseph T.
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| LC no. |
95010351 |
| ISBN |
1555532349 (acid-free paper) |
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1555532543 (paperback) |
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