| Description |
ix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index. |
| Contents |
Narrating memory / Terry DeHay -- Rereading photographers and narratives in ethnic autobiography: memory and subjectivity in Mary Antin's The Promised land / Betty Bergland -- The New man and the mediator: (non-) remembrance in Jewish-American immigrant narrative / Gert Buelens -- Memory and silences in the work of Tillie Olsen and Henry Roth / Jules Chametzky -- Nostalgia, amnesia, and grandmothers: the uses of memory in Albert Murray, Sabine Ulibarri, Paula Gunn Allen, and Alice Walker / Wolfgang Karrer -- X rays of Irish America: Edwin O'Connor, Mary Gordon, and William Kennedy / William Keough -- Expanding the collective memory: Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure woman tales / Sandra Molyneaux -- Reading carnival as an archaeological site for memory in Paule Marshall's The Chosen place, The Timeless people and Praisesong for the widow / Angelita Reyes -- "Tell me your earrings": time and the marvelous in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Sharon Jessee -- Memory and mother love: Toni Morrison's dyad / Barbara Offutt Mathieson -- Maxine Hong Kingston's fake books / |
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/ Debra Shostak -- Memory and the ethnic self: reading Amy Tan's The Joy luck club / Ben Xu -- Traveling light: immigration and invisible suitcases in M.G. Vassanji's The Gunny sack / Rosemary Marangoly George -- Rediscovering nineteenth-century Mexican-American autobiography / Genaro M. Padilla. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Minority authors. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature. |
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
| Added Author |
Singh, Amritjit.
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Skerrett, Joseph T.
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Hogan, Robert E.
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| ISBN |
1555532039 acid-free paper $35.00 |
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