TY - BOOK AU - Madsen,Deborah L. TI - Beyond the borders: American literature and post-colonial theory SN - 9781435660700 AV - PS153.M56 B49 2003 U1 - 810.9/920693 22 PY - 2003/// CY - London, Sterling, Va. PB - Pluto Press KW - American literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Minorities KW - United States KW - Intellectual life KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Cultural pluralism in literature KW - Postcolonialism KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Ethnic groups in literature KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Auteurs issus des minorités KW - Histoire et critique KW - Théorie, etc KW - Diversité culturelle KW - États-Unis KW - Diversité culturelle dans la littérature KW - Postcolonialisme KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature KW - Groupes ethniques dans la littérature KW - Ethnicité dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Ideologies KW - Democracy KW - fast KW - Literatur KW - gnd KW - Ethnische Gruppe KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Minderheitenliteratur KW - Postkoloniale Literatur KW - Literaturtheorie KW - USA KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Ethnic literature and Post-colonialism. Indigenous literatures and postcolonial theories: reading from comparative frames / Chadwick Allen -- pt. 2. Post-colonialism at home. "Going into a whole different country": postcolonial "nation"-hood in Native American literature / Lee Schweninger and Cara Cilano -- Origin story: on being a white Native American(ist) / John Hunt Peacock, Jr. -- Counter-discursive strategies in contemporary Chicana writing / Deborah L. Madsen -- "At least one negro everywhere": African American travel writing / Alasdair Pettinger -- Unsettling Asian American literature: when more than America is in the heart / Rajini Srikanth -- Forging a postcolonial identity: women of Chinese ancestry writing in English / Mary Condé -- Border crossings: Filipino American literature in the United States / Angela Noelle Williams -- Reading the literatures of Hawaiʻi under an "Americanist" rubric / Paul Lyons; pt. 3. Post-colonialism in the Border regions. Writing migrations: the place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican literature / Frances R. Aparicio -- Diasporic disconnections: insurrection and forgetfulness in contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean women's literature / Myriam J.A. Chancy -- Reclaiming maps and metaphors: Canadian first nations and narratives of place / Richard J. Lane -- Thomas King and contemporary indigenous identities / Laura Peters -- pt. 4. American post colonialism at home and abroad. Vietnamese and Vietnamese Amercian literature in a postcolonial context / Renny Christopher -- Politics, pleasure, and intertextuality in contemporary Southeast Asian women's writing / Julie Shackford-Bradley -- U.S. and US: American literatures of immigration and assimilation / Geraldine Stoneham; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - The contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of 'post-colonial' theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America -- for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literatures from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism -- from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam. In this way the contributors explore key questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorised within 'American literature' if writing on one side of the border, but as 'Canadian' and 'post-colonial' if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation -- issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=167954 ER -