Cultural difference & the literary text : pluralism & the limits of authenticity in North American literatures / edited by Winfried Siemerling & Katrin Schwenk.

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ISBN:

9781587292224

Title:

Cultural difference & the literary text : pluralism & the limits of authenticity in North American literatures / edited by Winfried Siemerling & Katrin Schwenk.

Author:

Siemerling, Winfried, 1956-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Contents:

Introduction: thinking about "pure pluralism" / Multicultural furor: the reception of Other solitudes / Cultural authenticity and the construction of Pan-Indian metanarrative / Postindian autoinscriptions: the origins of essentialism and pluralism in descriptive tribal names / Democratic blues: Houston Baker and the representation of culture / Raising Cane on the theoretical plane: Jean Toomer's racial personae / Humor and identity in ethnic autobiography: Zora Neale Hurston and Jerre Mangione / Crossing borders: an aesthetic practice in writings by Gloria Anzaldua / New mestizos: traces of a quincentenary miracle in Old World Spanish and New World English texts / Marginality and William Faulkner's Light in August / The multi-voiced basis of Henry Roth's literary success in Call it sleep / Comments

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Subject Term:

American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Intercultural communication in literature.

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.