Postcolonial Literature And The United States Race Ethnicity And Literature

Author : Amritjit Singh,Peter Schmidt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781578062522

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Postcolonial Theory and the United States by Amritjit Singh,Peter Schmidt Pdf

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the world may be in a "transnational moment." Indeed, we are increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s. Displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings, they are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers. Included are more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial and ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. -- from back cover.

Author : Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : London : Pluto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060011106

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Beyond The Borders by Deborah L. Madsen Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1604737700

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Postcolonial Literature and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Probing essays that examine critical issues surrounding the United States's ever-expanding international cultural identity in the postcolonial era Download Plain Text version At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in U.S. culture have provided some of the most innova-tive and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature represents a new chapter in the emerging dialogues about the importance of borders on a global scale. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s in this emergent field by both well established and up-and-coming scholars. Almost all the essays have been either especially written for this volume or revised for inclusion here. These essays are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers, displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings. The anthology includes more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial or ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. The volume opens with two essays by the editors: first, a survey of the ideas in the individual pieces, and, second, a long essay that places current debates in U.S. ethnicity and race studies within both the history of American studies as a whole and recent developments in postcolonial theory. Amritjit Singh, a professor of English and African American studies at Rhode Island College, is coeditor of Conversations with Ralph Ellison and Conversations with Ishmael Reed (both from University Press of Mississippi). Peter Schmidt, a professor of English at Swarthmore College, is the author of The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction (University Press of Mississippi).

Author : Aparajita Nanda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317683179

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Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism by Aparajita Nanda Pdf

As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation–based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the complexity of cultural production in both its diasporic and national contexts, seeks a nuanced critical approach in order to look ahead to the future of transnational literary studies. The majority of the chapters, written by literary and ethnic studies scholars, analyze ethnic literatures of the United States which, given the nation’s history of slavery and immigration, form an integral part of mainstream American literature today. While the primary focus is literary, the chapters analyze their specific topics from perspectives drawn from several disciplines, including cultural studies and history. This book is an exciting and insightful resource for scholars with interests in transnationalism, American literature and ethnic studies.

Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0252068521

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Postcolonial America by C. Richard King Pdf

Scholars from a wide array of disciplines describe and debate postcolonialism as it applies to America in this authoritative and timely collection. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, Postcolonial America clarifies and challenges prevailing conceptualizations of postcolonialism and accepted understandings of American culture. Advancing multiple, even conflicted visions of postcolonial America, this important volume interrogates postcolonial theory and traces the emergence and significance of postcolonial practices and precepts in the United States. Contributors discuss how the unique status of the United States as the colony that became a superpower has shaped its sense of itself. They assess the global networks of inequality that have displaced neocolonial systems of conquest, exploitation, and occupation. They also examine how individuals and groups use music, the Internet, and other media to reconfigure, reinvent, and resist postcoloniality in American culture. Candidly facing the inherent contradictions of "the American experience," this collection demonstrates the patterns, connections, and histories characteristic of postcoloniality in America and initiates important discussions about how these conditions might be changed.

Author : Alfred J. Lopez
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791483725

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Postcolonial Whiteness by Alfred J. Lopez Pdf

Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.

Author : Peter Schmidt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604733112

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Sitting in Darkness by Peter Schmidt Pdf

Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgee, Frances E. W. Harper, Sutton Griggs, George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Thomas Dixon, Owen Wister, and W. E. B. Du Bois are illuminated in significant new ways. The book's readings seek to synthesize developments in literary and cultural studies, ranging through New Criticism, New Historicism, postcolonial studies, black studies, and "whiteness" studies. This volume posits and answers significant questions. In what ways did the "uplift" projects of Reconstruction-their ideals and their contradictions-affect U.S. colonial policies in the new territories after 1898? How can fiction that treated these historical changes help us understand them? What relevance does this period have for us in the present, during a moment of great literary innovation and strong debate over how well the most powerful country in the world uses its resources?

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8131713733

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Postcolonial Literature by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Author : Amritjit Singh,Peter Schmidt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496800213

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Postcolonial Theory and the United States by Amritjit Singh,Peter Schmidt Pdf

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a “transnational” moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in US culture have provided some of the most innovative and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature represents a new chapter in the emerging dialogues about the importance of borders on a global scale. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s in this emergent field by both well established and up-and-coming scholars. Almost all the essays have been either especially written for this volume or revised for inclusion here. These essays are accessible, well-focused resources for college and university students and their teachers, displaying both historical depth and theoretical finesse as they attempt close and lively readings. The anthology includes more than one discussion of each literary tradition associated with major racial or ethnic communities. Such a gathering of diverse, complementary, and often competing viewpoints provides a good introduction to the cultural differences and commonalities that comprise the United States today. The volume opens with two essays by the editors: first, a survey of the ideas in the individual pieces, and, second, a long essay that places current debates in US ethnicity and race studies within both the history of American studies as a whole and recent developments in postcolonial theory.

Author : Judith Lynne Tabron
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111817313

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Postcolonial Literature from Three Continents by Judith Lynne Tabron Pdf

How can we read literatures from other cultures? The metaphors of fractal geometry can help us think about the complexity of the cultural situation of a text or an author. Postcolonial Literature from Three Continents identifies four primary themes common to postcolonial texts - technology, memory, language, and geography - and examines them in relationship to four texts from Nigeria, the United States, and Australia so that we see both the colonized and colonizing positions of these works. The quartet of texts are Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard, H. D.'s Helen in Egypt, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Patrick White's Voss.

Author : Malini Johar Schueller,Edward Watts
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0813532337

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Messy Beginnings by Malini Johar Schueller,Edward Watts Pdf

When exploring the links between America and post-colonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This book challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism.

Author : Malini Johar Schueller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791477151

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Locating Race by Malini Johar Schueller Pdf

Locating Race provides a powerful critique of theories and fictions of globalization that privilege migration, transnationalism, and flows. Malini Johar Schueller argues that in order to resist racism and imperialism in the United States we need to focus on local understandings of how different racial groups are specifically constructed and oppressed by the nation-state and imperial relations. In the writings of Black Nationalists, Native American activists, and groups like Partido Nacional La Raza Unida, the author finds an imagined identity of post-colonial citizenship based on a race- and place-based activism that forms solidarities with oppressed groups worldwide and suggests possibilities for a radical globalism.

Author : John Cullen Gruesser
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820330266

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Confluences by John Cullen Gruesser Pdf

Confluences looks at the prospects for and the potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. John Cullen Gruesser’s study emphasizes the confluences among three major theories that have emerged in literary and cultural studies in the past twenty-five years: postcolonialism, Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Signifyin(g), and Paul Gilroy’s black Atlantic. For readers who may not be well acquainted with one or more of the three theories, Gruesser provides concise introductions in the opening chapter. In addition, he urges those people working in postcolonial or African American literary studies to attempt to break down the boundaries that in recent years have come to isolate the two fields. Gruesser then devotes a chapter to each theory, examining one literary text that illustrates the value of the theoretical model, a second text that extends the model in a significant way, and a third text that raises one or more questions about the theory. His examples are drawn from the writings of Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, and Alice Walker. Cautious not to conflate postcolonial and African American studies, Gruesser encourages critics to embrace the black Atlantic’s emphases on movement through space (routes rather than roots) and intercultural connections and to expand and where appropriate to emend Gilroy’s efforts to bridge the two fields.

Author : Martin Japtok
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1592210686

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Postcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the US by Martin Japtok Pdf

Combining postcolonial perspectives with race and culture based studies, which have merged the fields of African and black American studies, this volume concentrates on women writers, exploring how the (post) colonial condition is reflected in women's literature. The essays are united by their focus on attempts to create alternative value systems through the rewriting of history or the reclassification of the woman's position in society. By examining such strategies these essays illuminate the diversity and coherence of the postcolonial project.

Author : Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791441733

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Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial by Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham Pdf

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.