Beyond The Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial TheoryThe contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of 'post-colonial' theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America -- for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literatures from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism -- from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam. In this way the contributors explore key questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorised within 'American literature' if writing on one side of the border, but as 'Canadian' and 'post-colonial' if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation -- issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum. |
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Contents
American Literature and Postcolonial Theory | 1 |
On Being a White Native Americanist 51 | 51 |
CounterDiscursive Strategies in Contemporary | 65 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Beyond The Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory |
| Editor | Deborah L. Madsen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0745320465, 9780745320465 |
| Length | 259 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / African Literary Criticism / American / General |
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