Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions

"I began to realize that being black or Chicano or Native American, you are forced to see and become aware of disparate cultures..."

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This is a full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative, Multicultural American Literature covers the writing -- in both fiction and autobiography -- of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jessica Hagedorn. Taking a cultural studies perspective, A. Robert Lee recognises the context of politics and popular culture and draws on the visual as well as the literary spectrum. This is the first book of its kind -- while show more there are books available which introduce one or other of the ethnic traditions, no one has yet considered them in comparative terms in a single volume. As such it is an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in multicultural American literature. show less

Excellent compilation of samples of work - fictions of America’s Asia, fictions Indian country, Asiatown, Black city, barrio, borderland, migrancy -- Island America: Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti -- The postmodern turn: metafiction