Critical Insights: American Multicultural Identity

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2014

ISBN13

9781619254084

Release

Format

eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On American Multicultural Identity.
Critical Contexts.
1: The Hyphenated American in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century America.
2: Intersecting Lives: Critics and the Literature of American Multicultural Identity.
3: Sherman Alexie and the Absolute Truth of Double-Consciousness.
4: Four American Poets Explore Hybrid Identity Formation and Familial Relationships.
Critical Readings.
5: Legalized Hearts: Legal Identity in Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart.
6: Unspoken Histories and One-Man Museums: Lingering Trauma and Disappearing Dads in the Work of Chang-rae Lee.
7: “She’s left me her legacy nonetheless”: Boundaries and Female Connection in Cuban American Women’s Literature.
8: Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones, or How the Barbadian Becomes American.
9: “A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut”: Junk Food and Bildungsroman in Bich Minh Nguyen’s Stealing Buddha’s Dinner.
10: Neither Insider nor Outsider but Both: Multicultural Identity in Edith Eaton’s “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” and “The Inferior Woman”.
11: Intimate Relations: Land and Love in The Descendants.
12: Bridging Borders: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Cross-Cultural Vision in the Atomic Age.
13: A Tent of One’s Own: Negotiating Mourning Dove’s Authorial Identity.
14: “All growth involves change, all change involves loss”: Modernism, Mourning, and Social Change in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land.
Resources.
Works on American Multicultural Identity.
Bibliography.
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Index.
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