A survey of multicultural San Francisco Bay literature, 1955-1979 : Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat generation / Brian Flota ; with a preface by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure.
This work examines how writers in the San Francisco Bay Area worked to develop a multiculturalist American literature. This study counteracts popular narratives of multiculturalism's boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s by showing that a large group of culturally eclectic writers in the Bay Area were re-envisioning American identity through a multiculturalist looking glass many years earlier.
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