Judit Ágnes Kádár

Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing explores the anxiety, frustrations and ignorance challenging the celebratory public discourse on mixed race and the way Southwestern writing facilitates the reformulations of identity as a self-conscious holder of cultural assets beyond the binaries of Indigenous and Euro-American ancestry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781793607904
• ISBN-10: 1793607907
• Artikelnr.: 63154245

Autorenporträt

Judit Kádár is Director of International Relations at the University of Physical Education, Budapest.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2 Multiracial Identity and the Southwest
2.1 "Core and Confluence": The Geo-Cultural Context of Mixedblood Writing
2.2 From "Halfbreed" to "Crossblood"
2.3 Southwestern Authors and Artists of Mixed Heritage: An Overview
Chapter 3: Identity Negotiation in Southwestern Mixedblood Poetry: A
Complementary Scope
Chapter 4: "Blood Trails," Hidden Histories
4.1 The Beginning of Mixed Heritage Fictional Biographies: From Memoir to
Postcolonial Storytelling
4.2 Laguna Pueblo Postcolonial Life-Writing and The Followers: Southwestern
Mixed Heritage Autobiographies
Chapter 5: Multiracial Identity and its Narrative Formulation
5.1 Four Decades of Mixed-Race Writing: Altering Visions in Selected Prose
Texts
5.2 A Psychological Insight into Blended Heritage Identity Construction
5.3 Cultural Identity Formulation in Multiracial Narratives
5.4 Narrative Identity: From Object to Subject
5.5 Nanabush's "Pandora's Box of Possibilities": Humor in Contemporary
Multiracial Writing
Chapter 6: Some Interesting Cognitive Patterns
6.1 Grave Concerns and Nightwalkers
6.2 Sharpening Sights
6.3 "Restore me!"
6.4 "Indigenous Shapes of Water" in Mixedblood Writing
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Bibliography
8.1 Primary Sources
8.2 Secondary Sources