Ethnic Passages

Name: Ethnic Passages
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226244419
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Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-century America

Autor: Thomas J. Ferraro

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: University of Chicago Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele v malém množství

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Ethnic literature figures prominently in the current debate on multiculturalism, but even its suppor...

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Autor

Thomas J. Ferraro

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

1993

Stránek

242

EAN

9780226244419

Enbook ID

04544684

Vydavatel

University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

438

Rozměry

146 x 223 x 20

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Ethnic literature figures prominently in the current debate on multiculturalism, but even its supporters have had little to say about it as literature, stressing instead its political and sociological context. Thomas J. Ferraro, in this lively and accessible study of modern fiction by Americans of immigrant background, argues that the best of these stories demand--and reward--close reading and attention to questions of genre and literary form. Ferraro engages the literature of immigration and mobility by asking what motivates its authors and what their work actually accomplishes. He concentrates on five diverse examples of the up-from-the-ghetto narrative: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers, Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, Henry Miller's The Tailor Shop, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. To Ferraro the unsuspected value of these works is that they recast the conventions of ethnic representation, illustrating the power of ethnic writing to capture and redirect the national literary imagination. Ferraro's sharply observed reading of these five works shows how such reenactments of immigrant mobility test the ideology of assimilation against the writer's experience. Ethnic Passages will refocus discussion of how literature addresses the American conflict between ethnic heritage and the greater opportunities of mainstream society.

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