| The Invention of Ethnicity Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sollors, Werner (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195050479 ISBN-13: 9780195050479 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $87.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1991 Annotation: This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays charts the cultural construction of 'ethnicity' as embodied in American ethnic literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science |
| Dewey: 810.992 |
| LCCN: 88005963 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.54" W x 8.25" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of ethnicity as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents: On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed. Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time Jewesses, Alide Cagidemetrio. Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen. Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn. Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti. Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro. Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan. |