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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Ethnic literature"”.
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Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
<p>This dissertation concerns contemporary multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. (MELUS) and empire. Namely, contemporary MELUS invites a reckoning with U.S. Empire, an amalgamation of settler colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, which works through ahistorical and transhistorical cultural …
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… contemporary fiction has generated literatures reflective of the complexities of the global city, literary theory has neglected to keep up. This is due to the failure of literary theory to encompass the dynamism of global citizenship, identity, and nation-building inherent in these …
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Meeting Diversity with a Multicultural English Elective Course
… north of San Fran implementing a multicultural/ethnic literature course. My research examines student engagement in English classes when multicultural/ethnic texts are included, and whether or not an elective class with such texts would be of interest to students.</p> <p>Several theorists and …
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Narrative privacy : keeping secrets in contemporary Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American metafictions
… use literary form to theorize the politics of ethnic privacy. These authors use metafictional strategies to situate the well-meaning desires of academic and popular readers for ethnic literary representation within historical contexts in which increased visibility for ethnic people often …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… constructions of space and literary visions of ethnicity and Americanness in fiction. My parallel readings of African American and immigrant novels show that the disciplinary boundaries which are often drawn between African American literature and white ethnic literatures can be imaginatively …
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An Approach to the Study of American Indian Literature at the College Level
… materials of the American Indian tradition, such literature has been available for a number of years. The works of American Indians, whether individual or tribal, have generally gone unnoticed by the majority of teachers, who have usually favored non-Indian interpretations of Indian experiences. …
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Momentary Magic: Magical Realism as Literary Activism in the Post-Cold War US Ethnic Novel
… I then shift my focus to works produced by US ethnic authors who are building on the anti-colonial politics of canonical magical realism in the antagonistic political environment of the post-Cold War United States. During this time, such authors engaged with the magical realist genre as a mode …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… I reveal that the Civil Rights Movement, ethnic nationalism, and second-wave feminism were not separate entities; rather, the cultural work of activists was an intersectional effort that defied national strategies, such as non-violent protest and race-based separatism, that were often …