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Critical approaches to literature. Multicultural
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This book both explores multicultural approaches to a wide range of literature. It defines multiculturalism in very broad terms, using it to refer not only to different ethnic and racial cultures b...
This book both explores multicultural approaches to a wide range of literature. It defines multiculturalism in very broad terms, using it to refer not only to different ethnic and racial cultures but also to different historical periods, and exploring cultural differences involving such matters as physical disability, sexual orientation, particular social roles, distinct stages of life, and specific kinds of language usage.
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- Creator
- editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [First edition]
- Salem Press
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
- �2017
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 301 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- ISBNs
- 9781682175767, 1682175766, 1682175758
- OCLC
- on1008962782
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Dedication -- About this volume ; On multicultural criticism: multicultural approaches to Wilfred Owen's "disabled" / Robert C. Evans -- Critical contexts -- Sounding the alarum: calls for drinking in moderation in early modern English pamphlets, pulpits, and plays / Jonathan D. Wright -- Introduction to multicultural criticism: an overview / Melissa D. Carden -- Multicultural and other approaches to a "new" story by Zora Neale Hurston / Christina M. Garner -- "In a far country": Jack London and multiculturalism / Kelley Jeans -- Critical readings -- Trance, trauma, PNES, and epileptic seizures in Shakespeare's Othello ; Multicultural and other approaches to a "new" story by Sui Sin Far / Robert C. Evans -- Minglings: form, style, and theme in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Nicolas Tredell -- From This I believe to "The marching hordes": the edges of multiculturalism in the juvenile novels of Robert A. Heinlein / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- The other half of the story: valuing the vision of Black Atlantic women / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Asian-American whodunit: politics of negative representation in Chan is missing (1982) / Swan Kim -- At the threshold of revelation: intersectional difference and queer utopia in Angels in America / Sarah Crockarell -- Social constructions of otherness in the United States: four Latin American examples / Susan Kenney -- How to teach a true Spokane story: learning Sherman Alexie's Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven through Tim O'Brien's The things they carried / Michael Kaufmann -- The other father in Barack Obama's Dreams from my father / Robert Kyriakos Smith and King-Kok Cheung -- Deconstructing the urban circuit: gospel musicals, Langston Hughes's legacy, and Tyler Perry's contemporary influence / Phyllisa Deroze -- The Jewish dimension in contemporary Latino literature / Bridget Kevane -- Reading terror, reading ourselves: conflict and uncertainty in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist / Maryse Jayasuriya -- Resources -- Multicultural pluralism: a variety of possible multicultural approaches to literature / Robert C. Evans -- Chronology -- Additional works -- Bibliography -- About the editor -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Index