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This is the first volume to present an international overview of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing in 14 national contexts and a conclusion discussing this writing as a vanguard of cultural change.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004363246
This is the first volume to present an international overview of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing in 14 national contexts and a conclusion discussing this writing as a vanguard of cultural change.
Author : Tim Prchal
Publisher : Multi-Ethnic Literatures of th
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
For many years, America cherished its image as a Golden Door for the world's oppressed. But during the Progressive Era, mounting racial hostility along with new national legislation that imposed strict restrictions on immigration began to show the nation in a different light. The literature of this period reflects the controversy and uncertainty that abounded regarding the meaning of "American." Literary output participated in debates about restriction, assimilation, and whether the idea of the "Melting Pot" was worth preserving. Writers advocated-and also challenged-what emerged as a radical new way of understanding the nation's ethnic and racial identity: cultural pluralism. From these debates came such novels as Willa Cather's My ntonia and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Carl Sandburg added to the diversity of viewpoints of native born Americans while equally divergent immigrant perspectives were represented by writers such as Anzia Yezierska, Kahlil Gibran, and Claude McKay. This anthology presents the writing of these authors, among others less well known, to show the many ways literature participated in shaping the face of immigration. The volume also includes an introduction, annotations, a timeline, and historical documents that contextualize the literature.
Author : Nikesh Shukla
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0316524298
By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. These writers, and the many others in this urgent collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong.
Author : Joseph Keith
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2013
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781461934950
"During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African-American writers--C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright--Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms "alienage," as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of "The American Century." Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today."--Publisher's website.
Author : Theo D'haen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1000625966
This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies. Separated into four key sections, the volume covers: the history of world literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, and diaspora studies theoretical issues in world literature, including gender, politics, and ethics; and a global perspective on the politics of world literature Comprehensive yet accessible, this book is ideal as an introduction to world literature or for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.
Author : Wiebke Sievers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031399005
This open access book links the artistic and cultural turn in migration studies to the larger struggle for narrative and cultural change in European migration societies. It proposes theoretical and methodological approaches that highlight how ideas of change expressed in artistic and cultural practices spread and lead to wider cultural change. The book also looks at the slow processes of change in large cultural institutions that emerged at a time when culture was nationalised. It explains how individual and group activities can have an impact beyond their immediate surroundings. Finally, the book discusses how migration researchers have cooperated with arts and cultural producers and used artistic means to increase the effect of their research in the wider public. As such, the book provides a great resource for graduate students and researchers in the social sciences and the humanities who have an interest in migration studies and want to move beyond interpreting the world towards changing it.
Author : Louis Adamic
Publisher : Modern Times Publishing
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632923257
The Old Alien by the Kitchen Window brings together a selection of writing by one of America's greatest lost voices of social justice, Louis Adamic, whose life was as adventurous and idealistic as his death was mysterious and tragic. As an immigrant writer, Adamic explored the United States that most people of his time wanted to ignore: the dynamic, multicultural, interracial, and multilingual landscape of its ethnic and racial minorities. Adamic took this same energy to his native land, writing about political struggles in Yugoslavia before and after World War II, and became an ardent supporter of Marshal Tito-making him a target during the McCarthy era. This volume offers readers access to the entire breadth of Adamic's cultural project: the ascendency of diversity in America. Born in Slovenia, Louis Adamic (1898-1951) immigrated to the United States in 1913 at the age of fifteen, fought in World War I, and later became a writer, translator, and editor focused on immigration and race in America. He was the author of over fifteen books, including memoirs and reportage. He was also founding editor of Common Ground, a literary magazine published by the Common Council for American Unity, of which he was the director. Adamic was known as a vocal social critic who fought for immigrant rights, cultural pluralism, and racial tolerance. While his early books focus on European ethnic groups who had immigrated to the United States in the 19th- and 20th centuries, his later work focuses on Black, Latinx, and Asian Americans, venturing into question of interracial marriage and the cultural clash that exists between what he called "old-stock" Americans and the nation's ethnic minorities.
Author : 彭青龙等著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
本书旨在通过系统梳理、分析和解读澳大利亚建国百年来重要作家和批评家有关文学创作和文学研究的论著,论述澳大利亚文学理论批评和实用批评所蕴含的社会意识、思想观点和审美标准,揭示其“非此非彼、非原创性杂交”的文学批评本质和特色,探究澳大利亚民族化、国际化和多元化文学批评演变轨迹形成的动因,为中国学者研究文学批评史提供借鉴。
Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1640140220
Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.
Author : Joel Kuortti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000964604
Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating selection of materials and approaches. The book examines the concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, trends, and voices in the field. It critically engages with the theoretical, intellectual, and literary discussions of the concept from the time of colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts from various genres and cultures that open up new perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks, questions, and additional reference materials.