Format:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849644860
Content:
What are the boundaries of postcolonial theory?.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: American Literature and Post-colonial Theory -- Part 1 Ethnic Literature and Post-colonialism -- 1. Indigenous Literatures and Postcolonial Theories: Reading from Comparative Frames -- Part 2 Post-colonialism at Home -- 2. "Going Into a Whole Different Country": Postcolonial 'Nation"-hood in Native American Literature -- 3. Origin Story: On Being a White Native American(ist) -- 4. Counter-Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Chicana Writting -- 5. "At Least One Negro Everywhere": African American Travel Writing -- 6. Unsettling Asian American Literature: When More than America is in the Heart -- 7. Forging a Postcolonial Identity: Women of Chinese Ancestry Writing in English -- 8. Border Crossings: Filipino American Literature in the United States -- 9. Reading the Literatures of Hawai'i Under an "Americanist" Rubric -- Part 3 Post-colonialism in the Border Regions -- 10. Writing Migrations: The Place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature -- 11. Diasporic Disconnections: Insurrection and Forgetfulness in Contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean Women's Literature -- 12. Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of Place -- 13. Thomas King and Contemporary Indigenous Identities -- Part 4 American Post-colonialism at Home and Abroad -- 14. Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context -- 15. Politics, Pleasure, and Intertextuality in Contemporary Southeast Asian Women's Writing -- 16. U.S. and US: American Literatures of Immigration and Assimilation -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745320465
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745320465
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3386136
Author information:
Madsen, Deborah L. 1960-
