Screen LibraryThe postethnic literary : reading paratexts and transpositions around 2000 /
What are the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the notion of the postethnic literary? The book suggests an answer to this question by reading contemporary literary texts commonly classified as multicultural or postcolonial for their investment in literary form and for their d...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Buchreihe der anglia / anglia book series;
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| Summary: |
What are the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the notion of the postethnic literary? The book suggests an answer to this question by reading contemporary literary texts commonly classified as multicultural or postcolonial for their investment in literary form and for their dramatizations of individual gestures of authorship. |
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1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110368482 |
| Index Number: | PS25 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface: Read, Again -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature -- 1. Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form -- 2. Copies, Lists, and Reading Publics in Chang-rae Lee s Native Speaker -- 3. Exhaustion, Abstraction, and the Longing for Postethnic Literary Presence in Jamaica Kincaid s Lucy -- Coda. The How is the What: Constellations of the Postethnic Literary This study has explored the epistemological conditions -- Works Cited -- Index. |