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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777657003321

Titolo

Multiethnic literature and canon debates [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

0-7914-8175-1

1-4294-1172-4

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 242 p

Altri autori (Persone)

BonaMary Jo

MainiIrma <1958->

Disciplina

810.9/920693

Soggetti

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Minorities - United States - Intellectual life

Cultural pluralism in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Minorities in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Canon (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From the road not taken to the multi-lane highway: Melus, the journal / Veronica Makowsky -- On the trail of the Chicana/o subject: literary texts and contexts in the formation of chicana/o studies / Aureliano Maria DeSoto -- "A house made with stones/full of stories": anthologizing Native American literature / Kristin Czarnecki -- "But is it great?": the question of the canon for Italian American women writers / Mary Jo Bona -- Racial politics and the literary reception of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Stephen Spencer -- De-centering the canon: understanding The great Gatsby as an ethnic novel / Joe Kraus -- An exile's will to canon and its tension with ethnicity: Li-Young Lee / Wenying Xu -- Canon-openers, book clubs, and middlebrow culture / June Dwyer -- From the boardroom to cocktail parties: "great" books, multiethnic literature, and the production of the professional managerial class in the context of



globalization / Sarika Chandra -- It's just beginning: assessing the impact of the internet on U.S. multiethnic literature and the "canon" / Patricia Keefe Durso.