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The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
Frederick J. Karem
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Paperback. To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
To what extent has the growing popular demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fueled the expectation that the most important task for regional and ethnic writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material to their readers? In The Romance of Authenticity, Jeff Karem argues that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions that authenticity should be prized as a goal of regional and ethnic literatures, it is in fact a dangerously restrictive category of literary judgment. He draws on a large body of archival evidence to show how intense political and economic interests have determined what literary representations are ... Read more
To what extent has the growing popular demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fueled the expectation that the most important task for regional and ethnic writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material to their readers? In The Romance of Authenticity, Jeff Karem argues that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions that authenticity should be prized as a goal of regional and ethnic literatures, it is in fact a dangerously restrictive category of literary judgment. He draws on a large body of archival evidence to show how intense political and economic interests have determined what literary representations are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813922553
SKU
V9780813922553
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Reviews for The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
With considerable literary and historical scope and with original archival research, The Romance of Authenticity is a valuable contribution to current scholarly debates regarding U.S. regionalism, multicultural literature, and reception studies. Karem challenges liberal multiculturalism for an 'inclusiveness' that often depends on narrow 'representativeness' that the ethnic author explicitly rejects, and is particularly effective in showing how such representativeness often ... Read more