Multiethnic Literature And Canon Debates

by Bona, Mary Jo; Maini, Irma

• ISBN13: 9780791467619
• ISBN10: 0791467619
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-04
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction : multiethnic literature in the millennium	p. 1
From the road not taken to the multi-lane highway : MELUS, the journal	p. 23
On the trail of the Chicano/o subject : literary texts and contexts in the formation of Chicana/o studies	p. 41
"A house made with stones / full of stories" : anthologizing native American literature	p. 61
"But is it great?" : the question of the canon for Italian American women writers	p. 85
Racial politics and the literary reception of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God	p. 111
De-centering the canon : understanding The great Gatsby as an ethnic novel	p. 127
An exile's will to canon and its tension with ethnicity : Li-Young Lee	p. 145
Canon-openers, book clubs, and middlebrow culture	p. 167
From the boardroom to cocktail parties : "great" books, multiethnic literature, and the production of the professional managerial class in the context of globalization	p. 183
It's just beginning : assessing the impact of the Internet on U.S. multiethnic literature and the "canon"	p. 197
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