Introduction: Multiculturalism's Cultural Revolution 1. Zora Neale Hurston, D'Arcy McNickle, and the Culture of Anthropology 2. Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the Literature of Sociology 3. Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and Desegregation 4. John Okada and the Sociology of Internment 5. Americo Paredes and the Folklore of the Border 6. Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and Cultural Nationalisms, 1965-1975 7. N. Scott Momaday: Blood and Identity 8. Ishmael Reed and the Search for Survivals 9. Gloria Anzaldua, Aztlan, and Aztec Survivals Conclusion: The Multicultural Complex and the Incoherence of Literary Multiculturalism Notes Bibliography Index
Christopher Douglas is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right and A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, both from Cornell.
"Superbly researched and intellectually provocative, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism should be required reading for those interested in multiculturalism."-Choice "A beautifully researched and well-argued analysis, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturism is a must-read for all those devoted to a deeper appreciation of the interpenetration between literary works and the social sciences."-MFS: Modern Fiction Studies "A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism is history of the present in a particularly vivid form. Christopher Douglas takes a familiar phenomenon-the multicultural novel-and shows how it came into existence. One of the many impressive things about this book is Douglas's complete command of the extraordinary range of authors and cultures he addresses. Very few books move as comfortably as this one does among African American, Native American, Chicano, and Asian American literary texts."-Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago "Christopher Douglas has developed a new and exciting way of reading multicultural literatures, arguing for the formation of a literary tradition that is based on a group of authors' engagement with social science theories of race and culture. He draws connections among a wide range of narratives that span most of the twentieth century, tracing patterns of literary and intellectual influence that haven't been fully acknowledged before. Thanks to its original and provocative analysis, this book makes a major contribution to research on ethnic literatures."-Daphne Lamothe, Smith College
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