Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions
This is a full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative, Multicultural American Literature covers the writing -- in both fiction and autobiography -- of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jessica Hagedorn....
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A comparative analysis of recent ethnic writing that has enlarged the spectrum of American literature
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: America and the Multicultural Word: Legacies, Maps, Vistas, Theory11Landmarks: Ellison, Momaday, Anaya, Kingston202Selves: Autobiography, Autoethnicity, Autofiction373Afro-America: Styling Modern and Contemporary Fictions674'I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen': Fictions of the Indian, Native Fictions905Chicanismo, La Raza, Aztlan: Fictions of Memory1206Eat a Bowl of Tea: Fictions of America's Asia, Fictions of Asia's America1397Sites: Indian Country, Asiatown, Black City, Barrio, Borderland, Migrancy1688Island America: Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti1919The Postmodern Turn: Metafiction, Playfield, Ventriloquy21210Epilogue: Fictions of Whiteness235Primary Bibliography269Selected Secondary Scholarship278Selected Literary Anthologies288Bibliographic and Reference Studies292Index295
