Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1499-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature

This volume stems from the idea that the notion of borders and borderlines as clear-cut frontiers separating not only political and geographical areas, but also cultural, linguistic and semiotic spaces, does not fully address the complexity of contemporary cultural encounters. Centering on a whole range of literary works from the United States and the Caribbean, the contributors suggest and discuss different theoretical and methodological grounds to address the literary production taking place across the lines in North American and Caribbean culture. The volume represents a pioneering attempt at proposing the concept of the border as a useful paradigm not only for the study of Chicano literature but also for the other American literatures. The works presented in the volume illustrate various aspects and manifestations of the textual border(lands), and explore the double-voiced discourse of border texts by writers like Harriet E. Wilson, Rudolfo Anaya, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Louise Erdrich, Helena Viramontes, Paule Marshall and Monica Sone, among others. This book is of interest for scholars and researchers in the field of comparative American studies and ethnic studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Benito, Jesús

Manzanas, Ana María

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Jesús Benito and Ana María Manzanas: Border(lands) and Border Writing: Introductory Essay
Aitor Ibarrola: Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig: An Idiosyncratic Attempt to Locate the Color Line in Terms of Class, Gender and Geography
Justine Tally: Reality and Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Trilogy: Testing the Limits
Isabel Soto: The Border Paradigm in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing
Francisco Lomelí: An Interpretive Assessment of Chicano Literature and Criticism
Begoña Simal: “The Cariboo Café” as a Border Text: The Holographic Model
Carmen Flys: Shifting Borders and Intersecting Territories: Rudolfo Anaya
Markus Heide: Transcultural Space in Luis Alberto Urrea's In Search of Snow
Eduardo de Gregorio: Language and Male Identity Construction in the Cultural Borderlands: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory
M.S. Suárez Lafuente: M/other Tongues in Borderlands in Contemporary Literature in English
María del Mar Gallego: The Borders of the Self: Identity and Community in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow
Janet Cooper: A Two-Headed Freak and a Bad Wife Search for Home: Border Crossing in Nisei Daughter and The Mixquiahuala Letters
Chrissie Harris: Insiders? Outsiders: Finding One’s Self in the Cultural Borderlands
Bibliography
Contributors