The Invention of Ethnicity

The Invention of Ethnicity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9780198021490
ISBN-13 : 0198021496
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Book Synopsis The Invention of Ethnicity by : Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University

Download or read book The Invention of Ethnicity written by Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989-03-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents: On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed. Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses", Alide Cagidemetrio. Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen. Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn. Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti. Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro. Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan.


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