Lee, A. Robert.

Multicultural American literature: comparative black, native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions/ A. Robert Lee. - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003. - x, 307 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-294) and index.

America and the Multicultural Word: Legacies, Maps, Vistas, Theory
1 Landmarks
Ellison, Momaday, Anaya, Kingston
2 Selves
Autobiography, Autoethnicity, Autofiction
3 Afro-America
Styling Modem and Contemporary Fictions
4 ’I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen’ Fictions of the Indian, Native Fictions
5 Chicanismo, La Raza, Aztla’n Fictions of Memory
6 Eat a Bowl of Tea
Fictions of America’s Asia, Fictions of Asia’s America
7 Sites
Indian Country, Asiatoum, Black City, Barrio, Borderland, Migrancy
8 Island America
Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Hail
9 The Postmodern Turn
Metafiction, Playfield, Ventriloquy
10 Epilogue
Fictions of Whiteness
Primary Bibliography
Selected Secondary Scholarship
Selected Literary Anthologies
Bibliographic and Reference Studies

0748612270 (paperback)


American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Minorities--Intellectual life.--United States
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.

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