| Description |
xiv, 242 pages ; 23 cm |
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From the road not taken to the multi-lane highway: Melus, the journal / Veronica Makowsky -- On the trail of the Chicana/o subject: literary texts and contexts in the formation of chicana/o studies / Aureliano Maria DeSoto -- "A house made with stones/full of stories": anthologizing Native American literature / Kristin Czarnecki -- "But is it great?": the question of the canon for Italian American women writers / Mary Jo Bona -- Racial politics and the literary reception of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Stephen Spencer -- De-centering the canon: understanding The great Gatsby as an ethnic novel / Joe Kraus -- An exile's will to canon and its tension with ethnicity: Li-Young Lee / Wenying Xu -- Canon-openers, book clubs, and middlebrow culture / June Dwyer -- From the boardroom to cocktail parties: "great" books, multiethnic literature, and the production of the professional managerial class in the context of globalization / Sarika Chandra -- It's just beginning: assessing the impact of the internet on U.S. multiethnic literature and the "canon" / Patricia Keefe Durso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- Minority authors. |
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Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Minorities. |
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Cultural pluralism in literature.
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Cultural pluralism in literature. |
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature. |
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Minorities in literature.
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Minorities in literature. |
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature. |
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Canon (Literature)
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Canon (Literature) |
| Added Author |
Bona, Mary Jo.
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Maini, Irma, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0791467619 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780791467619 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0791467627 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780791467626 paperback alkaline paper |
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