Antonio Luciano De Andrade Tosta

Confluence Narratives

Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Informed by postcolonial theory, this book analyzes a selection of novels from North and South Americas to discuss the impact of ethnicity in the construction of national identities, highlight the inherently transcultural aspect of the American character, and to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487558
• ISBN-10: 1611487552
• Artikelnr.: 45470454

Autorenporträt

Antonio Luciano Tosta is associate professor of Brazilian literature and culture at the University of Kansas.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation Making
in the Americas Chapter One: The Native American, Hybridity, and Mestiçagem
in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Breviário das Terras do Brasil and Laura
Esquivel's Malinche Chapter Two: Escaping the Nation? African American
History as (Trans)National History in Luís Fulano de Tal's A Noite dos
Cristais and Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada Chapter Three: Jewish Puzzles:
Identity Search, Memory, and History in Moacyr Scliar's A Estranha Nação de
Rafael Mendes and Ricardo Feierstein's Mestizo Chapter Four: World War II
and the Persecution of Identity: Memory, Difference, and the Struggle for
Belonging in Jorge J. Okubaro's O Súdito: (Banzai, Massateru!) and Joy
Kogawa's Obasan Epilogue: Confluence Narratives and the Future of
Inter-American Studies Bibliography Index About the Author