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基本説明
Examines how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America - for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers.
Full Description
This book challenges the boundaries of postcolonial theory. Focusing on American literature, it examines how America's own imperial history has shaped the literature that has emerged from America, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literature from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism, from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam.It explores questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorised within 'American literature' if writing on one side of the border, but as 'Canadian' and 'postcolonial' if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of postcolonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation.
Contents
IntroductionETHNIC LITERATURE AND POST-COLONIALISM1. Indigenous Literatures and Postcolonial Theories: Reading from Comparative FramesChadwick Allen, Ohio State University2. 'Going Into a Whole Different Country': Postcolonial 'Nation'-hood in Native American Literature Lee Schweninger and Cara Cilano, University of North Carolina, Wilmington3. Origin Story: On Being a White Native American(ist)John Peacock, Maryland Institute College of Art4. Counter-Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Chicana WritingDeborah L. Madsen, University of Geneva5. 'At Least One Negro Everywhere': African American Travel Writing Alasdair Pettinger6. Unsettling Asian-American Literature: When More than America is in the HeartRajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston7. Forging a Postcolonial Identity: Women of Chinese Ancestry Writing in EnglishMary Conde, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London8. Border Crossings: Filipino American Literature in the United StatesAngela Noelle Williams, San Jose State University9. Reading the Literatures of Hawai'i under an Americanist RubricPaul Lyons, University of Hawai'i-Manoa10. Writing Migrations: The Place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican LiteratureFrances R. Aparicio, University of Illinois11. Diasporic Disconnections: Insurrection and Forgetfulness in Contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean Women's LiteratureMyriam J. A. Chancy, Arizona State University12. Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of PlaceRichard J. Lane, University of Debrecen13. Thomas King and Contemporary Indigenous IdentitiesLaura Peters, University of Surrey, Roehampton 14. Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial ContextRenny Christopher, California State University, Channel Islands15. Politics, Pleasure and Intertextuality in Contemporary Southeast Asian Women's WritingJulie Shackford-Bradley, California State University, Monterey Bay16. U.S. and US: American Literatures of Immigration and AssimilationGeraldine Stoneham, London South Bank UniversityNotes on ContributorsIndex
