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  1. Novel subjects
    authorship as radical self-care in multiethnic American narratives
    Author: Milne, Leah A.
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or... more

     

    "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal? In Necessary Fictions, Leah Milne offers a new and original way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in the contemporary works of authors of marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care-a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and "an act of political warfare." In engaging in this battle, the works discussed in this study confront limitations on ethnicity and nationality wrought by the institutionalization of multiculturalism. They also focus on identities whose mere presence on the cultural landscape is often perceived as vindictive or willful. Analyzing recent texts by Carmen Maria Machado, Louise Erdrich, Ruth Ozeki, Toni Morrison, and more, Milne connects works across cultures and nationalities in search of reasons for this recent trend of depicting writers as characters in multicultural texts. Her exploration uncovers fiction and memoir that embrace unacceptable or marginalized modes of storytelling-such as plagiarism, historical revisions, jokes, and lies-as well as inauthentic, invisible, and unexceptional subjects. These works ultimately reveal a shared goal of expanding the borders of belonging in ethnic and cultural groups, and thus add to the ever-evolving conversations surrounding both multicultural literature and self-care"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781609387631
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    Series: The new American canon: the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
    Subjects: Amerikanisches Englisch; Minderheit; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Literatur; Nationalität <Motiv>; Identität <Motiv>; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Autor
    Other subjects: American fiction / Minority authors / History and criticism; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Fiction / Technique; Authors in literature; Group identity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Ethnicity in literature; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; Authors in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Fiction / Technique; Group identity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; 1900-2099; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource 250 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Introduction: Vindictively American -- Novel subjects and objectionable authorship : Gina Apostol and Louise Erdrich -- Against "authenticity" : writing the self and the other : Carmen Maria Machado and Jonathan Safran Foer -- Material metafiction and the life-changing magic of all myriad things : Nicole Krauss and Ruth Ozeki -- "A blank page rises up" : willful authors in Percival Everett's Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrado -- Epilogue: Releasing doubles into the world...
  2. Children of the raven and the whale
    visions and revisions in American literature
    Author: Hellman, Caroline
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

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  3. Uncertain Mirrors
    Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures
    Author: Benito Sánchez, Jesús
    Published: June 2009
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Kenilworth

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    ISBN: 1441617051; 9042026006; 9042026014; 9781441617057; 9789042026001; 9789042026018
    Series: Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 3
    Subjects: Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; Ethnic groups; Literature; Magic realism (Literature); Minorities; Literatur; Minderheit; Magic realism (Literature); American fiction; American fiction; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Minderheitenliteratur; Magischer Realismus <Literatur>
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index

    Louise Erdrich's "Father's milk" : magical realism's oxymoronic nature -- Mimesis, realism, and counter-realisms -- Romance, the imaginary, and magical realism -- The crisis of representation : post-realism, postmodernism, magical realism -- Juxtaposed realities : magical reaslim and/as postcolonial experience -- From identity to alter-entity : trans-selving the self in magical realist narratives -- Of a magical nature : the environmental unconscious -- A negative sense of reality
  4. Activism and the American novel
    religion and resistance in fiction by women of color
    Author: Romero, Channette
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0813933285; 0813933293; 0813933307; 9780813933283; 9780813933290; 9780813933306
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction / Minority authors; American fiction / Women authors; Politics and literature; Religion in literature; Women and literature; Geschichte; American fiction; American fiction; Women and literature; Politics and literature; Religion in literature; Ethnische Identität; Frauenroman; Schwarze; Religion; Indianer
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 217 p.)
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    "Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression. In her examination of contemporary fiction by women of color--including Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Toni Cade Bambara, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko--Channette Romero considers the way these novels newly engage with Vodun, Santería, Candomblé, and American Indian traditions. Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change."--Project Muse

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: Searching for relations -- Reconstituting the public sphere -- Spiritual temporalities and histories: Cristina Garcia and Leanne Howe -- Rewriting America's exceptionalism: Toni Morrison -- Post-civil rights community: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Ana Castillo -- Indigenous sovereignties: Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich -- Conclusion: Toward a literary activism
  5. The uses of variety
    modern Americanism and the quest for national distinctiveness
    Author: Bramen, Carrie Tirado
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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  6. Body politics and the fictional double
    Published: ©2000
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

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    Source: Union catalogues
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    ISBN: 0253108322; 0253214092; 0253337798; 9780253108326; 9780253214096; 9780253337795
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; American fiction / Women authors; Arts, American; Body image in literature; Doubles in literature; Human body in literature; Women and literature; Vrouwelijk lichaam; Letterkunde; Geschichte; Literatur; American fiction; Human body in literature; Women and literature; American fiction; American fiction; Body image in literature; Doubles in literature; Arts, American; Kultur; Körper; Frauenliteratur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 214 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index

    Who says an older woman can't/shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- When body politics of partial identifications collide with multiple identities of real academics: limited understandings of research and truncated collegial interactions / Sue V. Rosser -- Body language: corporeal semiotics, literary resistance / Maude Hines -- Writing in red ink / Debra Walker King -- Myths and monsters: the female body as the site for political agendas / S. Yumiko Hulvey -- Agency and ambivalence: a reading of works by Coco Fusco / Caroline Vercoe -- Perfoming bodies, performing culture: an interview with Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante / Rosemary Weatherston -- Women singing, women gesturing: music videos / Maureen Turim -- Bombshell / Stephanie A. Smith -- Afterword: the unbroken circle of assumptions / Trudier Harris
  7. New visions of community in contemporary American fiction
    Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison
    Author: Michael, Magali Cornier
    Published: ©2006
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

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    Source: Union catalogues
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    ISBN: 1587297396; 9781587295058; 9781587297397
    RVK Categories: HU 1819
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; American fiction / Women authors; Communities; Ethnicity; Literature; Women and literature; Roman américain / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Écrits de femmes américains / Histoire et critique; Femmes et littérature / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle; Roman américain / Auteurs issus des minorités / Histoire et critique; Ethnicité dans la littérature; Communauté dans la littérature; Geschichte; Literatur; American fiction; American fiction; Women and literature; American fiction; Ethnicity in literature; Communities in literature; Gemeinschaft <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 246 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index

    Introduction: rethinking community for the Twent-First Century -- Choosing hope and remaking Kinship: amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- Negotiating collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven -- Colelctive liberation and activism via spirituality: ana Castill's So Far from God -- The call to love, to assert power with others: Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Conclusion: looking to the future
  8. Transcending the new woman
    multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era
    Author: Rich, Charlotte J.
    Published: ©2009
    Publisher:  University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo.

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    Source: Union catalogues
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    ISBN: 0826218261; 0826266630; 9780826218261; 9780826266637
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; American fiction / Women authors; Ethnicity; Feminism; Feminist literature; Literature; Minorities; Progressivism (United States politics); Women and literature; Geschichte; Literatur; Minderheit; American fiction; American fiction; American fiction; Women and literature; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Feminism in literature; Feminist literature; Progressivism (United States politics); Frauenliteratur; Minderheitenliteratur; Ethnische Identität <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 230 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index

    Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights -- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence -- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman -- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood -- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion

    "Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how these authors articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social class, race, or ethnicity impacted women's experiences"--Provided by publisher
  9. Novel subjects
    authorship as radical self-care in multiethnic American narratives
    Author: Milne, Leah A.
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or... more

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    "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal? In Necessary Fictions, Leah Milne offers a new and original way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in the contemporary works of authors of marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care-a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and "an act of political warfare." In engaging in this battle, the works discussed in this study confront limitations on ethnicity and nationality wrought by the institutionalization of multiculturalism. They also focus on identities whose mere presence on the cultural landscape is often perceived as vindictive or willful. Analyzing recent texts by Carmen Maria Machado, Louise Erdrich, Ruth Ozeki, Toni Morrison, and more, Milne connects works across cultures and nationalities in search of reasons for this recent trend of depicting writers as characters in multicultural texts. Her exploration uncovers fiction and memoir that embrace unacceptable or marginalized modes of storytelling-such as plagiarism, historical revisions, jokes, and lies-as well as inauthentic, invisible, and unexceptional subjects. These works ultimately reveal a shared goal of expanding the borders of belonging in ethnic and cultural groups, and thus add to the ever-evolving conversations surrounding both multicultural literature and self-care"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
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    ISBN: 9781609387624
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    Series: The new American canon: the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
    Subjects: Amerikanisches Englisch; Literatur; Autor; Nationalität <Motiv>; Minderheit; Identität <Motiv>; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
    Other subjects: American fiction / Minority authors / History and criticism; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Fiction / Technique; Authors in literature; Group identity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Ethnicity in literature; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; Authors in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Fiction / Technique; Group identity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; 1900-2099; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 250 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Introduction: Vindictively American -- Novel subjects and objectionable authorship : Gina Apostol and Louise Erdrich -- Against "authenticity" : writing the self and the other : Carmen Maria Machado and Jonathan Safran Foer -- Material metafiction and the life-changing magic of all myriad things : Nicole Krauss and Ruth Ozeki -- "A blank page rises up" : willful authors in Percival Everett's Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrado -- Epilogue: Releasing doubles into the world...
  10. Pow Wow
    charting the fault lines in the American experience, short fiction from then to now
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-- with the assistance of Carla Blank-- has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum. The result is... more

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    Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-- with the assistance of Carla Blank-- has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum. The result is a collection that stretches the boundaries of the American literary landscape, including work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Pow Wow is the sequel to Reed's From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, a volume that included both Tupac Shakur and T. S. Eliot, and was named one of the best poetry anthologies of 2003 by Library Journal. Its fiction-focused follow-up once again demonstrates the broad range of American writing, from such stellar names as Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Alejandro Murguía to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. By presenting many different sides to the American story, the fiction of these writers challenges official history, shatters accepted myths, and provides alternatives to mainstream notions of personal and national identity. Gathering these voices together, Pow Wow offers a fascinating and vital opportunity to traverse the fault lines that separate, distinguish, and define a nation made of many Americas.

     
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    ISBN: 9781568583402; 9781568583426
    Subjects: Short stories, American; American fiction / Minority authors; American fiction; Short stories, American; Kurzgeschichte; Minderheit
    Scope: XXVII, 503 S.
  11. Novel subjects
    authorship as radical self-care in multiethnic American narratives
    Author: Milne, Leah A.
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or... more

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    "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal? In Necessary Fictions, Leah Milne offers a new and original way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in the contemporary works of authors of marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care-a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and "an act of political warfare." In engaging in this battle, the works discussed in this study confront limitations on ethnicity and nationality wrought by the institutionalization of multiculturalism. They also focus on identities whose mere presence on the cultural landscape is often perceived as vindictive or willful. Analyzing recent texts by Carmen Maria Machado, Louise Erdrich, Ruth Ozeki, Toni Morrison, and more, Milne connects works across cultures and nationalities in search of reasons for this recent trend of depicting writers as characters in multicultural texts. Her exploration uncovers fiction and memoir that embrace unacceptable or marginalized modes of storytelling-such as plagiarism, historical revisions, jokes, and lies-as well as inauthentic, invisible, and unexceptional subjects. These works ultimately reveal a shared goal of expanding the borders of belonging in ethnic and cultural groups, and thus add to the ever-evolving conversations surrounding both multicultural literature and self-care"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781609387631
    RVK Categories: HR 1105
    Series: The new American canon: the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
    Subjects: Autor; Identität <Motiv>; Amerikanisches Englisch; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Ethnizität <Motiv>; Nationalität <Motiv>; Literatur; Minderheit
    Other subjects: American fiction / Minority authors / History and criticism; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Fiction / Technique; Authors in literature; Group identity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Ethnicity in literature; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; Authors in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Fiction / Technique; Group identity in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; 1900-2099; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 252 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Introduction: Vindictively American -- Novel subjects and objectionable authorship : Gina Apostol and Louise Erdrich -- Against "authenticity" : writing the self and the other : Carmen Maria Machado and Jonathan Safran Foer -- Material metafiction and the life-changing magic of all myriad things : Nicole Krauss and Ruth Ozeki -- "A blank page rises up" : willful authors in Percival Everett's Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrado -- Epilogue: Releasing doubles into the world...
  12. New strangers in paradise
    the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction
    Author: Muller, Gilbert H.
    Published: [1999]
    Publisher:  The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    ISBN: 9780813150130; 0813150132
    RVK Categories: HU 1819
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; Emigration and immigration in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Immigrants in literature; Minorities in literature; American fiction; Immigrants in literature; American fiction; Emigration and immigration in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Einwanderer; Kurzgeschichte; Roman; Einwanderung <Motiv>; Prosa; Nationale Minderheit
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 281 Seiten)
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    Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Promised Land: Postwar Fiction and the Immigrant Experience; 2 Haunted by the Holocaust: Displaced Persons and the American Dream; 3 Migrant Souls: The Chicano Quest for National Identity; 4 Metropolitan Dreams: Latino Voyagers from the Caribbean; 5 Middle Passage: The African-Caribbean Diaspora; 6 Gold Mountains: The Asian-American Odyssey; 7 Searching for America; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

    New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II. Muller focuses on the literature of Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos, African Caribbeans, and Asian Americans. In the quest for a new identity, each of these groups seeks the American dream and rewrites the story of what it