American multicultural identity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2014]
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| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- Critical contexts. The hyphenated American in twentieth- and twenty-first century America / Annette Harris Powell
- Intersecting lives: critics and the literature of American multicultural identity / Jessica Boykin
- Sherman Alexie and the absolute truth of double-consciousness / Kathryn West
- Four American poets explore hybrid identity formation and familial relationships / Rickie-Ann Legleitner
- Critical readings. Legalized hearts: legal identity in Larry Kramer's The normal heart / Gad Guterman
- Unspoken histories and one-man museums: lingering trauma and disappearing dads in the work of Chang-rae Lee / Michael Gorman
- "She's left me her legacy nonetheless": boundaries and female connection in Cuban American women's literature / Jessica Labbé
- Race, ethnicity, and national identity in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones, or how the Barbadian becomes American / Joanna Davis-McElligatt
- "A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut": junk food and Bildungsroman in Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's dinner / Tina Powell
- Neither insider nor outside but both: multicultural identity in Edith Eaton's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" and "The inferior woman" / Linda Trinh Moser
- Intimate relations: land and love in The descendants / Leanne P. Day
- Bridging borders: Leslie Marmon Silko's cross-cultural vision in the atomic age / Kyoko Matsunaga
- A tent of one's own: negotiating Mourning Dove's authorial identity / John C. Orr & Enid R. Spitz
- "All growth involves change, all change involves loss": modernism, mourning, and social change in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Conor Picken.