LEADER 04595nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910828805603321 005 20240417034527.0 010 $a0-7914-8175-1 010 $a1-4294-1172-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791481752 035 $a(CKB)1000000000463138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000206446 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11203773 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000206446 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10227092 035 $a(PQKB)10564874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407692 035 $a(OCoLC)75959548 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6411 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407692 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579115 035 $a(OCoLC)923408190 035 $a(DE-B1597)683693 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791481752 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000463138 100 $a20050705d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMultiethnic literature and canon debates$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $axiv, 242 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6761-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom 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. 330 $aThis groundbreaking collection reinvigorates the debate over the inclusion of multiethnic literature in the American literary canon. While multiethnic literature has earned a place in the curriculum on many large campuses, it is still a controversial topic at many others, as recent campus and corporate revivals of The Great Books attest. Many still perceive multiethnic literature as being governed by ideological and political issues, perpetuating a false distinction between highbrow "literary" texts and multiethnic works.Through historical overviews and textual analyses, the contributors not only argue for the aesthetic validity of multiethnic literature, but also examine the innovative ways in which multiethnic literature is taught and critiqued. The following questions are also addressed: Who and what determines literary value? What role do scholars, students, the reading public, book awards, and/or publishers play in affirming literary value? Taken together, these essays underscore the necessity for maintaining vibrant conversations about the place of multiethnic literature both inside and outside the academy. 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aMinorities$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aCultural pluralism in literature 606 $aEthnic groups in literature 606 $aMinorities in literature 606 $aEthnicity in literature 606 $aCanon (Literature) 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aMinorities$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aCultural pluralism in literature. 615 0$aEthnic groups in literature. 615 0$aMinorities in literature. 615 0$aEthnicity in literature. 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 676 $a810.9/920693 701 $aBona$b Mary Jo$01616743 701 $aMaini$b Irma$f1958-$01632959 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828805603321 996 $aMultiethnic literature and canon debates$93972449 997 $aUNINA