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Complicating Constructions
Goldstein
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Description for Complicating Constructions
Paperback. A collection of essays that offers multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors - from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte - it maps a variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' literatures. Editor(s): Goldstein, David S.; Thaker, Audrey B. Series: American Ethnic & Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 b&w photo, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 545.
This volume of collected essays offers truly multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors - from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte - these essays provide a vital supplement to the critical literary canon, mapping a newly variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between “ethnic” and “nonethnic” literatures.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
American Ethnic & Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295988351
SKU
V9780295988351
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About Goldstein
David S. Goldstein teaches at the University of Washington, Bothell. Audrey B. Thacker teaches at California Lutheran University and California State University, Northridge. Other contributors include Jesse Alemán, Ariel Balter, Olivia Castellano, AnnaMarie Christiansen, Georgina Dodge, Tracy Floreani, Joe Lockard, Edwin J. McAllister, Sheree Meyer, William Over, Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Chauncey Ridley, Derek Parker Royal, Alexander W. Schultheis, Andrea ... Read more
Reviews for Complicating Constructions
"Unlike other recent treatments. . . this one is broad, and therein lies its strength. . . . Recommended."
Choice
"This collection does seem to be unique in its mixture of essays written about 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' texts, and it may hearken the beginning of the end of the traditional binary method of categorizing American texts."
Multi-Cultural ... Read more
Choice
"This collection does seem to be unique in its mixture of essays written about 'ethnic' and 'non-ethnic' texts, and it may hearken the beginning of the end of the traditional binary method of categorizing American texts."
Multi-Cultural ... Read more