Ethnic Life Writing and Histories: Genres, Performance, and CultureIn the context of the fraught ethnic politics in our increasingly globalized world, negotiating with historical memory has become both a cultural obsession and a powerful political weapon. The essays describe how processes of literary creativity and historical inscription blend significantly to produce texts that require nuanced readings on many levels. Half the essays focus on Asian American texts, inviting crucial connections and insights on the ways ethnic concerns are reflected methodologically. Roco G. Davis teaches at the Modern Languages Department of the University of Navarre, Pamplona (Spain). Jaume Aurell is a researcher at the history department of the University of Navarre, Pamplona. Ana Beatriz Delgado is a teaching assistant at the University of Navarre. |
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to my Beng hung on to Father's , who swam out to the horizon , unafraid that the four of us might drop out of each other's grip into the salty waves . Father was a strong swimmer . As a boy he had jumped off the bridge into the Malacca ...
After that evening I knew I could not depend on my father's love . Later , as I approached ten and eleven , I understood the meaning of I the sign , and the memory of his rage shamed me . The shame is unspeakable .
We thought that the discord in that house over issues of the Virgin of Guadalupe and prayer beads and bills and money and our noise and my father's heated accusations to his father of Carmen's mistreatment were purely matters of ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Memory Poetry and the Body | 22 |
An Introduction | 40 |
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