| Description |
232 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 18 |
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Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 18
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Religious Skirmishes: When the Ethnic Outsider Cannot Hear "The Loudest Voice" / Karen Surman Paley -- Ch. 2. Sam, Walter Lee, and The Powerless Black Male / Charles Trainor -- Ch. 3. Willa Cather's America, A Nation of Nations / S. Krishnamoorthy Aithal -- Ch. 4. Speaking Through Silences: Ethnicity in the Writings of Italian/American Women / Edvige Giunta -- Ch. 5. Loss and Growth of Identity in Shimon Wincelberg's Resort 76 / Eric Sterling -- Ch. 6. 'Time and Place Have Had Their Say': Literature and Ethnic Discrimination in Zora Neale Hurston's Aesthetics / Ana Maria Fraile Marcos -- Ch. 7. Rediscovering Nation, Resisting Racial Oppression: The Aesthetics of 'Putting Up' in U.S. Third World Writing / Tim Libretti -- Ch. 8. What God Has Put Asunder: The Politics of Ethnic Barriers in Chukwuemeka Ike's Toads for Supper and Isidore Okpewho's The Last Duty / Obododimma Oha |
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Ch. 9. East/West Paradigms of History and Fiction: Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe / Eva Darias Beautell -- Ch. 10. Women Before Hell's Gate: Survivors of the Holocaust and Their Memoirs / Peter Erspamer -- Ch. 11. From Nuyorican Barrio Literature to Issues on Puerto Rican Literature Outside New York City: Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortiz Cofer / Rafael Ocasio -- Ch. 12. Fetishized Blackness: Racial Desire in Contemporary Japanese Narrative and Culture / Nina Cornyetz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Discrimination in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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| Author |
Meyer, Michael J., 1956-
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| LC no. |
97189528 |
| ISBN |
9042002212 (paper) |
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9042002220 (bd.) |
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