LEADER 05613nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910789614903321 005 20230721014008.0 010 $a0-8014-7711-5 010 $a0-8014-5728-9 010 $a0-8014-5852-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458521 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081023 035 $a(EBL)3138068 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484594 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11307120 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484594 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594750 035 $a(PQKB)10271570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138068 035 $a(OCoLC)726824335 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28761 035 $a(DE-B1597)480091 035 $a(OCoLC)1013962888 035 $a(OCoLC)979954103 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138068 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457690 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL759573 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081023 100 $a20080905d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA genealogy of literary multiculturalism$b[electronic resource] /$fChristopher Douglas 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-336-28287-8 311 $a0-8014-4769-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-361) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Multiculturalism's Cultural Revolution --$t1. Zora Neale Hurston, D'Arcy McNickle, and the Culture of Anthropology --$t2. Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the Literature of Sociology --$t3. Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and Desegregation --$t4. John Okada and the Sociology of Internment --$t5. Américo Paredes and the Folklore of the Border --$t6. Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and Cultural Nationalisms, 1965-1975 --$t7. N. Scott Momaday: Blood and Identity --$t8. Ishmael Reed and the Search for Survivals --$t9. Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec Survivals --$tConclusion: The Multicultural Complex and the Incoherence of Literary Multiculturalism --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAs an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings in which she shaped a vision of African American Southern rural folk culture articulated through an antiracist concept of culture championed by Boas: culture as plural, relative, and long-lived. Meanwhile, a very different antiracist model of culture learned from Robert Park's sociology allowed Richard Wright to imagine African American culture in terms of severed traditions, marginal consciousness, and generation gaps. In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the United States into three periods. The first, which spans the 1920's and 1930's, features minority writers such as Hurston and D'Arcy McNickle, who were indebted to the work of Boas and his attempts to detach culture from race. The second period, from 1940 to the mid-1960's, was a time of assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong, John Okada, and Ralph Ellison, who were influenced by currents in sociological thought. The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism. Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theory" of multicultural literature brings together divergent African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American literary traditions into one story: of how we moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking about groups as cultures-and then back again. 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMulticulturalism in literature 606 $aMinorities in literature 606 $aLiterature and anthropology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMulticulturalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAnthropology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMulticulturalism in literature. 615 0$aMinorities in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and anthropology$xHistory 615 0$aMulticulturalism$xHistory 615 0$aAnthropology$xHistory 676 $a810.9/3552 700 $aDouglas$b Christopher$f1968-$01523051 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789614903321 996 $aA genealogy of literary multiculturalism$93763117 997 $aUNINA