Postcolonial theory and the United States : race, ethnicity, and literature / edited by Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt.

Other author Singh, Amritjit.
Other author Schmidt, Peter, 1951 December 23-
Format Book
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2000.
Descriptionxx, 471 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--Minority authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Ethnic groups--United States. --History. --20th century.
Postcolonialism--United States.
Decolonization in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.

Contents On the borders between U.S. studies and postcolonial theory / Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt -- Postcolonialism, ideology, and Native American literature / Arnold Krupat -- "Where, by the way, is this train going?" : a case for Black (cultural) studies / Mae G. Henderson -- Refiguring Aztlán / Rafael Pérez-Torres -- Denationalization reconsidered : Asian American cultural criticism at a theoretical crossroads / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Indian literacy, U.S. colonialism, and literary criticism / Maureen Konkle -- Capitalism, black (under)development, and the production of the African-American novel in the 1850s / Carla L. Peterson -- Postcolonial anxiety in classic U.S. literature / Laurence Buell -- Romancing the empire : the embodiment of American masculinity in the popular historical novel of 1890s / Amy Kaplan -- Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl : race and region in the writings of Charles W. Chesnutt / Anne Fleischmann -- Postcolonialism after W.E.B. Du Bois / Kenneth Mastern -- How (!) is an Indian? A contest of stories, round 2 / Jana Sequoya Magdaleno -- Revisioning our Kumblas : transforming feminist and nationalist agendas in three Caribbean women's texts / Rhonda Cobham -- Arab-Americans and the meanings of race / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Broken English memories : languages of the trans-colony / Juan Flores -- "Born-again Filipino" : Filipino American identity and Asian panethnicity / Leny Mendoza Strobel -- South Asian American literature : "Off the turnpike" of Asian America / Lavina Dhingra shankar and Rajini Srikanth -- Can you go home again? : transgression and transformation in African-American women's and Chicana literary practice / Inés Salazar -- Hybridity in the Americas : reading Condé, Mukherjee, and Hawthorne / Bruce Simon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 99087192
ISBN1578062519 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1578062527 (paper : alk. paper)

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