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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hybrid Americas. Münster : LIT ; Tempe, AZ : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, ©2008 (OCoLC)648796218 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Josef Raab; Martin Butler, Dr. |
| ISBN: | 1931010579 9781931010573 3825814270 9783825814274 |
| OCLC Number: | 242565248 |
| Description: | viii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: cultural hybridity in the Americas / Josef Raab and Martin Butler -- Living on the river / Rolando Hinojosa-Smith -- Alternate identities and creolities in Canadian literary discourse / Barbara Buchenau -- Constructions of hybrid identities in African American literature: the examples of Gustavus Vassa and James Baldwin / Wilfried Raussert -- Frenchising the South: Anne Rice's Gothic New Orleans / Christian Berkemeier -- Jeremiah of the borderlands: Charles Bowden / Michael Porsche -- The construction of race in 20th-century U.S.-Latino history / Silke Hensel -- Mirror writing: Mexican-American and Turkish-German Mother tongues / Johanne Mayr -- Subversive strategies in contemporary Latino/a underground music / Tomás Christ -- Mercenary sovereignty: casinos, truth games, and Native American liberty / Gerald Vizenor -- Imagining the Yankee: stereotypes, representations, and realities in Chile / Stefan Rinke -- Folkloric studies and the forging of national stereotypes in Latin America, 1920-1970: four case studies / Ricardo Pérez Montfort -- Libraries and the legibility of Hispanic America: early Latin American collections in the United States / Ricardo D. Salvatore -- The interdiscursive creation of transdifference: gendered perceptions of Latin America in U.S. literature / Helmbrecht Breinig -- Census realities vs media distortions: U.S. Latinos / Clara E. Rodríguez -- The history of Chicano film: hybridity and intercultural exchange as representational practices / Markus Heide -- Depictions of East-Indian immigrant women in Bharati Mukherjee's mid-career fiction / Victoria Sullivan -- Toward an inter-American literary historiography? / Marietta Messmer -- The concept of hybridity in Asian American literary and cultural studies: towards a geography of difference / Ruth Y. Hsu -- Hybrid cultures, hybrid languages / Stephan Gramley -- American hemispheric identity between Ariel and Caliban, or elsewhere? / Heiner Bus -- The U.S.A. in the age of globalization / Thomas Delaney -- Transcending hybridity, recovering difference / Roland Hagenbüchle. |
| Series Title: | Inter-American perspectives, v. 2. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Josef Raab and Martin Butler. |
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- American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
- Latin American literature -- History and criticism.
- Cultural fusion in literature.
- Multiculturalism in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- Group identity in literature.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
- Language and culture -- United States -- History.
- Language and culture -- America -- History.
- Littérature américaine -- Auteurs issus des minorités -- Histoire et critique.
- Littérature latino-américaine -- Histoire et critique.
- Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature.
- Multiculturalisme dans la littérature.
- Identité collective dans la littérature.
- Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
- Langage et culture -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Langage et culture -- Amérique -- Histoire.
- American literature -- Minority authors.
- Language and culture.
- Latin American literature.
- Minorities -- Intellectual life.
- America.
- United States.
- Latinamerikansk litteratur -- historia.
- Amerikansk litteratur -- minoritetsförfattare -- historia.
- Minoriteter i litteraturen.
- Minoriteter -- intellektuellt liv -- Förenta staterna.
- Mångkulturella samhällen i litteraturen.
- Språk och samhälle -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
- Språk och samhälle -- historia -- Amerika.
- Stereotyper i litteraturen.
- Gruppidentitet i litteraturen.
- New world literatures
