Julie Brown (ed.)

Ethnicity and the American Short Story

Herausgeber: Brown, Julie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a culture shape written stories? Why does "the community" loom so large in ethnic stories? How do such traditional forms as African American slave narratives or the Chinese talk-story shape the modern short story? Why have some minority writers been ignored for such a long time? How does a person of color write for white publishers, editors, and readers? This collection of original studies addresses these questions and other related concerns. It is the first work to focus specifically on short story writing by ethnic minorities, ranging from African Americans to Native Americans, Chinese to Hispanics. The number of women writers discussed will be of particular interest to women studies and genre studies researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780815321057
• ISBN-10: 0815321058
• Artikelnr.: 21415934

Autorenporträt

Julie Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Identity in Community in Ethnic Short Story Cycles: Amy Tan's The
Joy Luck Club, Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Gloria Naylor's The Women of
Brewster Place, Rocío G. Davis; Chapter 2 Marking Race/Marketing Race:
African American Short Fiction and the Politics of Genre, 1933-1946, Bill
Mullen; Chapter 3 Womanist Storytelling: The Voice of the Vernacular,
Madelyn Jablon; Chapter 4 A Minor Revolution: Chicano/a Composite Novels
and the Limits of Genre, Margot Kelley; Chapter 5 Resistance and
Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek, Susan E. Griffin;
Chapter 6 Healing Ceremonies: Native American Stories of Cultural Survival,
Linda Palmer; Chapter 7 Asian American Short Stories: Dialogizing the Asian
American Experience, Qun Wang; Chapter 8 The Invention of Normality in
Japanese American Internment Narratives, John Streamas; Chapter 9 No Types
of Ambiguity: Teaching Chinese American Texts in Hong Kong, Hardy C.
Wilcoxon; Chapter 10 "Wavering" Images: Mixed-Race Identity in the Stories
of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Carol Roh-Spaulding; Chapter 11 Resistance and
Reclamation: Hawaii "Pidgin English" and Autoethnography in the Short
Stories of Darrell H. Y. Lum, Gail Y. Okawa; Chapter 12 Conflict over
Privacy in Indo-American Short Fiction, Laurie Leach; Chapter 13
Re-Orienting the Subject: Arab American Ethnicity in Ramzi M. Salti's The
Native Informant: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World, Chris Wise;
Chapter 14 The Naming of Katz: Who Am I? Who Am I Supposed to Be? Who Can I
Be? Passing, Assimilation, and Embodiment in Short Fiction by Fannie Hurst
and Thyra Samter Winslow with a Few Jokes Thrown in and Various References
to Other Others, Susan Koppelman;