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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"multi-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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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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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 …