A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States

Informationen zum Autor GARY TOTTEN is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States . He is the author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow , co-editor of Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing , editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture , and author of over forty journal articles and book chapters on US literature and culture. Klappentext A COMPANION TO MULTIETHNIC LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States is the most comprehensive collection of scholarship dedicated to US literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Bringing together a diverse panel of leading contributors in the field, this authoritative volume draws on a wide range of critical and theoretical methodologies to analyze the histories, genres, themes, cultural and geographical contexts, and new directions of multiethnic literature. The first reference work of its kind, the Companion explores how the study of multiethnic literature informs literary scholarship while highlighting cutting-edge approaches and frameworks such as ecocriticism, refugee and diaspora studies, hemispheric and transnational studies, critical race theory, digital humanities, gender and sexuality, popular culture, material and visual culture, and many more. Thirty-one in-depth chapters address African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others. Throughout the book, the authors highlight significant themes and major critical trends in a variety of genres, discuss how recent developments in critical theory impact the reading and interpretation of multiethnic US literature, consider how technology and digital access to archival materials are changing the study, reception, and writing of multiethnic US literature, and much more. A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and researchers, instructors, and general readers studying all aspects of US literature. Zusammenfassung Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United StatesA Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct field of study, this unprecedented volume brings together a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches to offer analyses of African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others.Chapters written by a diverse panel of leading contributors explore how multiethnic texts represent racial, ethnic, and other identities, center the lives and work of the marginalized and oppressed, facilitate empathy with the experiences of others, challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, and other hateful rhetoric, and much more. Informed by recent and leading-edge methodologies within the field, the Companion examines how theoretical approaches to multiethnic literature such as cultural studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, diaspora studies, and posthumanism inform literary scholarship, pedagogy, and curricula in the US and around the world. Explores the national, international, and transnational contexts of US ethnic literature Addresses how technology and digital access to archival materials are impacting the study, reception, and writing of multiethnic literature* Discusses how recent developments in critical theo...

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GARY TOTTEN is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He is the author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow, co-editor of Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture, and author of over forty journal articles and book chapters on US literature and culture.

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A COMPANION TO MULTIETHNIC LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States is the most comprehensive collection of scholarship dedicated to US literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Bringing together a diverse panel of leading contributors in the field, this authoritative volume draws on a wide range of critical and theoretical methodologies to analyze the histories, genres, themes, cultural and geographical contexts, and new directions of multiethnic literature. The first reference work of its kind, the Companion explores how the study of multiethnic literature informs literary scholarship while highlighting cutting-edge approaches and frameworks such as ecocriticism, refugee and diaspora studies, hemispheric and transnational studies, critical race theory, digital humanities, gender and sexuality, popular culture, material and visual culture, and many more. Thirty-one in-depth chapters address African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others. Throughout the book, the authors highlight significant themes and major critical trends in a variety of genres, discuss how recent developments in critical theory impact the reading and interpretation of multiethnic US literature, consider how technology and digital access to archival materials are changing the study, reception, and writing of multiethnic US literature, and much more. A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and researchers, instructors, and general readers studying all aspects of US literature.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction: What is Multiethnic Literature of the United States? 1
Gary Totten

Part I: Contexts 11

1 The Multiethnic Archive 13
Emily Ruth Rutter

2 Popular Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 26
Christopher González

3 Displaced Subjects and Refugee Aesthetics: Contemporary Southeast Asian American Literature 40
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

4 Print Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Shifting Constructions of Black Print Cultures 51
Joycelyn K. Moody and Corey D. Greathouse

5 The Environment and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 65
Gregory Toy

6 Translation and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 77
Marlene Hansen Esplin

7 Multiethnic Digital Humanities: Practices, Theories, Case Studies 89
David S. Roh

8 Critical Race Theory and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 103
Christina Hsu Accomando

9 Gender and Material Culture in Multiethnic Literature of the United States: On Black Women's Textiles and Textuality 117
Mary I. Unger

10 Social Class and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 131
Scott Henkel

Part II: Geographies 143

11 The US South and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 145
Kirstin L. Squint

12 Transpacific Routes of Asian American Literature 157
Steven Yao

13 The US West and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 169
Emily Lutenski

14 Hemispheric, Transnational, and Comparative Approaches to Multiethnic Literature of the United States 181
Vincent Pérez

Part III: Genres 197

15 Multiethnic Fiction of the US Empire: Why Read Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Novels Together? 199
Caroline H. Yang

16 Aesthetic Di…