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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784366903321
• 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); 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.