Memory and cultural politics : new approaches to American ethnic literatures

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Memory and cultural politics : new approaches to American ethnic literatures / ed. by Amritjit Singh...

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Singh, Amritjit (Editor), Skerrett, Joseph T. (Editor), Hogan, Robert E. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German English Spanish
Published:	Boston : Northeastern Univ. Press, 1996
Subjects:	Amerika Minderheitenliteratur
Contents/pieces:	15 records

1. The politics of memory : remembering history in Alice Walker and Joy Kogawa

2. Nostalgia and ambiguity in Martha Lamont's "Crow and Her Seagull Slaves"

3. Arab American literature and the politics of memory

4. Telling history : inventing identity in Jewish American fiction

5. The Plural Self : the politicization of memory and form in three American Ethnic Autobiographies

6. Chicanismo as memory : the fictions of Rudolfo Anaya, Nash Candelaria, Sandra Cisneros, and Ron Arias

7. Beyond Mimicry : the poetics of memory and authenticity in Derek Walcott's "Another Life"

8. The Role of memory in August Wilson's Four-Hundred-Year Autobiography

9. Memory and the matrix of history : the poetics of loss and recovery in Joy Kogawa's "Obasan" and Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

10. Producing history and telling stories : Maxine Hong Kingston's "China Men" and Zeese Papanikolas's "Buried Unsung"

11. Oppression and repression : personal and collective memory in Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow" and Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony"

12. Feathering the serpent : Chicano mythic "Memory"

13. Tilling the soil to find ourselves : labor, memory, and identity in Ernest J. Gaines's "Of Love and Dust"

14. Yearning for the past : the dynamics of memory in Sansei Internment Poetry

15. Ethnographic politics : the uses of memory in Ethnic fiction