LEADER 04971nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910816684303321 005 20230725032356.0 010 $a1-283-36620-7 010 $a9786613366207 010 $a94-012-0685-6 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401206853 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131434 035 $a(EBL)819911 035 $a(OCoLC)768083011 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000641028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12179169 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000641028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10615021 035 $a(PQKB)11607813 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819911 035 $a(OCoLC)768083011$z(OCoLC)819271727 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401206853 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819911 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519660 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL336620 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131434 100 $a20111222d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSelves in dialogue$b[electronic resource] $ea transethnic approach to American life writing /$fedited by Begon?a Simal 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aCritical approaches to ethnic American literature ;$vno. 5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3398-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tSelves in Dialogue: An Introduction /$rBegoña Simal -- $tIdentity Cards: Autobiography and Critical Practice /$rJeffrey Gray -- $tSelf and Nation in Franklin?s Autobiography and Maxine Hong Kingston?s The Woman Warrior /$rAna M Manzanas -- $tEthnic Authorship and the Autobiographical Act: Zitkala-?a, Sui Sin Far, and the Crafting of Authorial Identity /$rRachel Ihara and Jaime Cleland -- $t?We, Too, Sing America?: The Construction of American Subjectivity in African American Migration and European Immigrant Autobiographies /$rBrenda R. Smith -- $tNative Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momaday?s The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria Anzaldúa?s Borderlands / La Frontera /$rAnna M. Brígido-Corachán -- $tMemory in Motion: The ?Double Narratives? of Paul Auster?s The Invention of Solitude and Samuel R. Delany?s The Motion of Light in Water /$rJosé Liste Noya -- $tAutobiographical Writing on Politics in the Sin State: Latina and Basque American Perspectives /$rDavid Río -- $tPuerto Rican and Dominican Self-Portraits and their Frames: The ?Autobiographical? Fiction of Esmeralda Santiago, Junot Díaz, and Julia Álvarez /$rAitor Ibarrola-Armendáriz -- $tLiving in the Taste of Things: Food, Self and Family in Diana Abu-Jaber?s The Language of Baklava and Leslie Li?s Daughter of Heaven /$rPaula Torreiro Pazo -- $tBibliography -- $tContributors -- $tIndex. 330 $aSelves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing constitutes an explicit answer to the urgent call for a comparative study of American autobiography. This collection of essays ostensibly intends to cut across cultural, ?racial? and/or ?ethnic? boundaries, introducing the concept of ?transethnicity? and arguing for its increasing validity in the ever-changing field of American Studies. Accordingly, the comparative analysis in Selves in Dialogue is implemented not by juxtaposing essays that pay ?separate but equal? attention to specific ?monoethnic? or ?monocultural? traditions?as has been the usual strategy in book-length publications of this sort?, but by critically engaging with two or more different traditions in every single essay. Mixing rather than segregating. The transethnic approach proposed in this collection does not imply erasing the very difference and diversity that makes American autobiographies all the more thrilling to read and study. Group-specific research of an ?intra-ethnic? nature should and will continue to thrive. And yet, the field of American Studies is now ready to indulge more freely, and more knowledgeably, in transethnic explorations of life writing, in an attempt to delineate both the divergences and the similarities between the different autobiographies written in the US. Because of its unusual perspective, Selves in Dialogue can be of interest not only for specialists in life writing, but also for those working in the larger fields of American Literature, Ethnic Studies or American Studies. 410 0$aCritical approaches to ethnic American literature ;$vno. 5. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a305.800973 701 $aSimal Gonza?lez$b Begon?a$0879807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816684303321 996 $aSelves in dialogue$94125892 997 $aUNINA