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Re-placing America : conversations and contestations : selected essays
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- edited by Ruth Hsu, Cynthia Franklin, Suzanne Kosanke
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- English
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- Honolulu : College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaiʻi and the East-West Center : Distributed by University of Hawaiʻi Press, Order Dept., [2000]
- ©2000
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- xiv, 295 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780824823641, 0824823648
- OCLC
- ocm43567420
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Fictionalizing workers or, the abuse of fiction : violence, reading, and the staging of barrio-space in Alejandro Morales's The brick people / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- The white faces of liberalism in academia : denial, oppression, resistance and double-speak / María Fránquiz -- Cultural negotiation and narrative form : Graciela Limón's Song of the hummingbird / Patricia Linton -- The creations of water and light / Linda Hogan -- Performing locally : "The foreigner" in Jewett / Jacqueline Shea Murphy -- Tribal recreations : Buffalo Child Long Lance and Black Seminole narratives / Melinda Micco -- White woman in Asia : racial fluidity as rebellion in Onoto Watanna's The heart of hyacinth / Samina Najmi -- Intercultural strategies in Asian American poetry / Xiaojing Zhou -- Versions of otherness : ethnic differences confront universal themes / Suzanne Kosanke -- From 'The three bears' to 'The Berenstain bears' : situating Daddy as other / Kristin M. McAndrews
- Who is the other? That is the question : Orientalism revisited / Nancy Alpert Mower -- Shadows of cultural identity : issues of biculturalism raised by the Turkish American poetry of Talat Sait Halman / Gönül Pultar -- "Home and native land" : the x-topic vision / David Barton -- Island Summer / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Pu'uomahuka / Kathryn Waddell Takara -- Leaving home : migration and contingent ethnic identities in Sassafras, cypress and indigo and The floating world / Karen H. Chow -- The ghosts of memory : representing the past in Beloved and The woman warrior / Dwight A. McBride -- Representing rape : the heart of whiteness / Lillian S. Robinson -- Snapshots in history : re-reading ethnic subjects in Cathy Song / Susan R. Van Dyne -- This other Eden / Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Banggo -- Passing away, or narrative transvestism as social metaphor in multiethnic societies / Joe Lockard
- The cultural logic of color : strategies of recognition in Charles W. Chesnutt's The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line / Leora H. McCloskey -- Sexuality, color, and class in Dorothy West's The wedding / Ann Rayson -- Representing race in the discourse of gay desire : B-boy blues and Traitor to the race / Ian Barnard -- An examination of the infusion of Disney images into popular culture on Isla Mujeres, Mexico / Batya Weinbaum -- Finding the 'cheem' in Singapore theatre : cultural production strategies and the use of Singapore English / Christopher C. Newton -- Practicing disruptive economics : the remapping of the economic space of the Americas in Maryse Condé's Moi, tituba, sorcière ... noire de salem / Christopher Breu
Subjects
- American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- Canadian literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- American poetry -- Minority authors.
- Canadian poetry -- Minority authors.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Ethnic groups -- Poetry.
- Minorities -- Poetry.
- United States -- Literatures -- History and criticism.