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All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures
Bonnie Tusmith
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Description for All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures
Paperback. Challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
All My Relatives challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism. Highlighting works by Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, N. Scott Momaday, Tomas Rivera, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker, and John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith shows that a "first language of community" exists within the cultures of ethnic Americans and is evident in their literary texts. TuSmith suggests that the proper understanding of these texts demands that we dismiss an interpretive frame borrowed from European-American literature.
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All My Relatives challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism. Highlighting works by Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, N. Scott Momaday, Tomas Rivera, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker, and John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith shows that a "first language of community" exists within the cultures of ethnic Americans and is evident in their literary texts. TuSmith suggests that the proper understanding of these texts demands that we dismiss an interpretive frame borrowed from European-American literature.
All My Relatives provides a new way of reading popular works such as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472082858
SKU
V9780472082858
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