The Invention of EthnicityThis 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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Contents
An American Writer | 3 |
A Plea for Fictional Histories and OldTime Jewesses | 14 |
NineteenthCentury German America on Parade | 44 |
Defining the Race 18901930 | 77 |
Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self | 105 |
A Sociologists Tale | 124 |
A Genealogical and Generational Poetics | 158 |
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| Title | The Invention of Ethnicity Oxford paperbacks |
| Author | Werner Sollors |
| Editors | Henry B and Anne M Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors, Werner Sollors |
| Contributor | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0195050479, 9780195050479 |
| Length | 294 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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