Author: Thomas J. Ferraro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226244423
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Farraro (English, Duke U.) defends immigration narratives from their reputation of having stereotyped characters and plots. He argues that they are manifestations of a rebirth paradigm and draw on all the literary tools employed by other genres. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: D. Konzett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural 'ethnic identity' often highlighted in the studies of these writers and argues that all three writers are better understood as ironic narrators of diaspora and movement and as avant-garde modernists. As a result, they offer an alternative aesthetics of modernism which is centered around the innovative narration of displacement. Her analysis of the complexities of language and form and impact of the complex and ambiguous formal styles of the three writers on the history of their reception is a model of the effective integration of formalist, historicist, and theoretical perspectives in literary criticism.
Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.
Author: Dean J. Franco
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813925608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature.
Author: Martin Japtok
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587295946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Growing Up Ethnic examines the presence of literary similarities between African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories in the first half of the twentieth century; often these similarities exceed what could be explained by sociohistorical correspondences alone. Martin Japtok argues that these similarities result from the way both African American and Jewish American authors have conceptualized their "ethnic situation." The issue of "race" and its social repercussions certainly defy any easy comparisons. However, the fact that the ethnic situations are far from identical in the case of these two groups only highlights the striking thematic correspondences in how a number of African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories construct ethnicity. Japtok studies three pairs of novels--James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and Samuel Ornitz's Haunch, Paunch and Jowl, Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun and Edna Ferber's Fanny Herself, and Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Anzia Yezierska's Bread Giver--and argues that the similarities can be explained with reference to mainly two factors, ultimately intertwined: cultural nationalism and the Bildungsroman genre. Growing Up Ethnic shows that the parallel configurations in the novels, which often see ethnicity in terms of spirituality, as inherent artistic ability, and as communal responsibility, are rooted in nationalist ideology. However, due to the authors' generic choice--the Bildungsroman--the tendency to view ethnicity through the rhetorical lens of communalism and spiritual essence runs head-on into the individualist assumptions of the protagonist-centered Bildungsroman. The negotiations between these ideological counterpoints characterize the novels and reflect and refract the intellectual ferment of their time. This fresh look at ethnic American literatures in the context of cultural nationalism and the Bildungsroman will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary and race studies.
Author: Naomi C.F. Yamada
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000206955
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities explores the cultural logic of China’s preferential policy measures. Similar in premise but different in practice and philosophy to American affirmative action, the preferential policies evoke controversy on all sides: from those who see the measures as insufficient to address problems of educational disparities between ethnic groups, and from those who see the measures as "reverse discrimination." Yamada shows how the policy measures attempt to manage ethnic-based contradictions and appease both majority and minority populations.
Author: Xiaoyuan Liu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804749602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan’an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese “periphery.” As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui (Muslims) of northwest China and the Mongols of Inner Mongolia. Based on a careful examination of CCP and Soviet Comintern documents only recently available, Liu’s study shows why the CCP found itself unable to follow the Russian Bolshevik precedent by inciting separatism among the non-Han peoples as a stratagem for gaining national power. Rather than swallowing Marxist-Leninist dogma on “the nationalities question,” the CCP took a position closer to that of the Kuomintang, stressing the inclusiveness of the Han-dominated Chinese nation, “Zhongua Minzu.”
Author: Eric D. Barreto
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161506093
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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.".. slightly revised version of a doctoral dissertation ... Emory University on April 12, 2010" p. [v].
Author: Daniel Bell
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412839679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding Passage demonstrates the author's continuing concern with the salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an older, humanistic sociological tradition.
Author: Thomas J. Ferraro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226244419
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Farraro (English, Duke U.) defends immigration narratives from their reputation of having stereotyped characters and plots. He argues that they are manifestations of a rebirth paradigm and draw on all the literary tools employed by other genres. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
