Memory and cultural politics : new approaches to American ethnic literatures / edited by Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., Robert E. Hogan.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
[1996]
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Table of 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
- 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 Papnikolas'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 Pérez-Torres
- Chicanismo as memory: the fictions of Rudolfo Anaya, Nash Candelaria, Sandra Disneros, and Ron Arias / A. Robert Lee.