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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457650603321

Titolo

The ethnic canon [[electronic resource] ] : histories, institutions, and interventions / / David Palumbo-Liu, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8630-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Palumbo-LiuDavid

Disciplina

810.9/920693

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Ethnic groups in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Minorities in literature

Canon (Literature)

Electronic books.

America Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Instituting Minor Literatures; ""Border"" Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color; Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Contradictions for Asian American Studies; PART TWO: The Construction of the Ethnic; The Borders of Modernity: Américo Paredes's Between Two Worlds and the Chicano National Subject; Telling the différance: Representations of Identity in the Discourse of Indianness

The Politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: Dialogic Criticism and African American LiteratureTropology of Hunger: The ""Miseducation"" of Richard Rodriguez; Calculated Musings: Richard Rodríguez's Metaphysics of Difference; ""Sugar Sisterhood"": Situating the Amy Tan Phenomenon; PART THREE: The Ethnic, the Nation, and the Canon; In Search of Filipino Writing: Reclaiming Whose ""America""?; A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers

M. Butterfly and the Rhetoric of Antiessentialism: Minority Discourse in



an International FrameContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Argues that texts are added to the canon only after an operation that attempts to resolve and neutralize historical and political contradictions and differences. The Ethnic Canon offers a wide variety of critical viewpoints and is unique in its pointed critique of the academy regarding specific authors and texts that have and have not been included in the canon.