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Memory and cultural politics : new approaches to American ethnic literatures
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- Creator
- edited by Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., Robert E. Hogan
- Other Title
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- Memory & cultural politics
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781555532345, 1555532349, 9781555532543, 1555532543
- OCLC
- ocm32201921
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index.
- Ethnographic politics: the uses of memory in ethnic fiction / William Boelhower -- The Plural self: the politicization of memory and form in three American ethnic autobiographies / Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez -- Telling history: inventing identity in Jewish American fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Nostalgia and ambiguity in Martha Lamont's "Crow and her seagull slaves" / Toby C.S. Langen -- Oppression and repression: personal and collective memory in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / G. Thomas Couser -- Tilling the soil to find ourselves: labor, memory, and identity in Ernest J. Gaines's Of love and dust / Herman Beavers -- Memory and the matrix of history: the poetics of loss and recovery in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Gurleen Grewal -- The Role of memory in August Wilson's four-hundred-year autobiography / Sandra G. Shannon -- Beyond mimicry: the poetics of memory and authenticity in Derek Walcott's Another life / Sandra Pouchet Paquet -- The Politics of memory: remembering history in Alice Walker and Joy Kogawa / David Palumbo-Liu -- Producing history and telling stories: Maxine Hong Kingston's China men and Zeese Papnikolas's Buried unsung / Yiorgos Kalogeras -- Yearning for the past: the dynamics of memory in Sansei internment poetry / Stan Yogi -- Arab American literature and the politics of memory / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Feathering the serpent: Chicano mythic "memory" / Rafael Pérez-Torres -- Chicanismo as memory: the fictions of Rudolfo Anaya, Nash Candelaria, Sandra Disneros, and Ron Arias / A. Robert Lee