Ethnicity and the American Short Story

Ethnicity and the American Short Story

Ethnicity and the American Short Story

Ethnicity and the American Short Story

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Overview

How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a particular culture shape the way in which written stories are told? Why does the community loom so large in ethnic stories? How do such traditional forms as African American slave narratives or the Chinese talk-story shape the modern short story? Which writers of color should be added to the canon? Why have some minority writers been ignored for such a long time? How does a person of color write for white publishers, editors, and readers?
Each essay in this collection of original studies addresses these questions and other related concerns. It is common knowledge that most scholarly work on the short story has been on white writers: This collection is the first work to specifically focus on short story practice by ethnic minorities in America, ranging from African Americans to Native Americans, Chinese Americans to Hispanic Americans. The number of women writers discussed will be of particular interest to women studies and genre studies researchers, and the collections will be of vital interest to scholars working in American literature, narrative theory, and multicultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815321057
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/01/1997
Series: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture , #16
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Identity in Community in Ethnic Short Story Cycles: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Rocío G. Davis; Chapter 2 Marking Race/Marketing Race: African American Short Fiction and the Politics of Genre, 1933-1946, Bill Mullen; Chapter 3 Womanist Storytelling: The Voice of the Vernacular, Madelyn Jablon; Chapter 4 A Minor Revolution: Chicano/a Composite Novels and the Limits of Genre, Margot Kelley; Chapter 5 Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek, Susan E. Griffin; Chapter 6 Healing Ceremonies: Native American Stories of Cultural Survival, Linda Palmer; Chapter 7 Asian American Short Stories: Dialogizing the Asian American Experience, Qun Wang; Chapter 8 The Invention of Normality in Japanese American Internment Narratives, John Streamas; Chapter 9 No Types of Ambiguity: Teaching Chinese American Texts in Hong Kong, Hardy C. Wilcoxon; Chapter 10 “Wavering” Images: Mixed-Race Identity in the Stories of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Carol Roh-Spaulding; Chapter 11 Resistance and Reclamation: Hawaii “Pidgin English” and Autoethnography in the Short Stories of Darrell H. Y. Lum, Gail Y. Okawa; Chapter 12 Conflict over Privacy in Indo-American Short Fiction, Laurie Leach; Chapter 13 Re-Orienting the Subject: Arab American Ethnicity in Ramzi M. Salti's The Native Informant: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World, Chris Wise; Chapter 14 The Naming of Katz: Who Am I? Who Am I Supposed to Be? Who Can I Be? Passing, Assimilation, and Embodiment in Short Fiction by Fannie Hurst and Thyra Samter Winslow with a Few Jokes Thrown in and Various References to Other Others, Susan Koppelman;
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