Title A survey of multicultural San Francisco Bay literature, 1955-1979 : Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat generation / Brian Flota ; with a preface by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure

Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (v, 326 pages) Summary This work examines how writers in the San Francisco Bay Area worked to develop a multiculturalist American literature. This study counteracts popular narratives of multiculturalism's boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s by showing that a large group of culturally eclectic writers in the Bay Area were re-envisioning American identity through a multiculturalist looking glass many years earlier Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Reed, Ishmael, 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Criticism and interpretation Chin, Frank, 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Chin, Frank, 1940- fast Kingston, Maxine Hong fast Reed, Ishmael, 1938- fast Subject American literature -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History and criticism Multiculturalism in literature. Beats (Persons) Beat generation. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Beats (Persons) Intellectual life Literature Multiculturalism in literature SUBJECT San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Intellectual life San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- In literature Subject California -- San Francisco Bay Area Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773444003 0773444009

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