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Postcolonial theory and the United States :

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Postcolonial theory and the United States :

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[Book]

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race, ethnicity, and literature /

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edited by Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt

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xx, 471 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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On the borders between U.S. studies and postcolonial theory / Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt -- Postcolonialism, ideology, and Native American literature / Arnold Krupat -- "Where, by the way, is this train going?" : a case for Black (cultural) studies / Mae G. Henderson -- Refiguring Aztlán / Rafael Pérez-Torres -- Denationalization reconsidered : Asian American cultural criticism at a theoretical crossroads / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Indian literacy, U.S. colonialism, and literary criticism / Maureen Konkle -- Capitalism, black (under)development, and the production of the African-American novel in the 1850s / Carla L. Peterson -- Postcolonial anxiety in classic U.S. literature / Laurence Buell -- Romancing the empire : the embodiment of American masculinity in the popular historical novel of 1890s / Amy Kaplan -- Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl : race and region in the writings of Charles W. Chesnutt / Anne Fleischmann -- Postcolonialism after W.E.B. Du Bois / Kenneth Mastern -- How (!) is an Indian? A contest of stories, round 2 / Jana Sequoya Magdaleno -- Revisioning our Kumblas : transforming feminist and nationalist agendas in three Caribbean women's texts / Rhonda Cobham -- Arab-Americans and the meanings of race / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Broken English memories : languages of the trans-colony / Juan Flores -- "Born-again Filipino" : Filipino American identity and Asian panethnicity / Leny Mendoza Strobel -- South Asian American literature : "Off the turnpike" of Asian America / Lavina Dhingra shankar and Rajini Srikanth -- Can you go home again? : transgression and transformation in African-American women's and Chicana literary practice / Inés Salazar -- Hybridity in the Americas : reading Condé, Mukherjee, and Hawthorne / Bruce Simon

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century the world may be in a "transnational moment." Indeed, we are increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s. Displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings, they are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers. Included are more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial and ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. -- from back cover

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Postcolonial theory and the United States.

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism

American literature-- Minority authors-- History and criticism

Ethnic groups in literature

Ethnic groups-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Ethnicity in literature

Minorities in literature

Minorities-- United States-- Intellectual life

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism-- United States

Race in literature

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Schmidt, Peter,1951 December 23-

Singh, Amritjit

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20160712065102.0

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