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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The identities encompassed in her single question include American national , immigrant , women , third - world , twentieth century , and genre - autobiography , personal history , and narrative . Perhaps all memoirists encounter such ...
Need I ? We are not immigrants in the traditional sense of the word . When Americans think of immigrants , we think of European families , piled up a at Ellis Island ; of pioneers traveling across the prairies Carmen Pearson 45.
Full of echoes of other descriptions of immigrant passage to the Promised Land , this scene emphasizes how the author has never felt particularly attached to the country of his birth . At the same time , by self - consciously drawing ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Memory Poetry and the Body | 22 |
An Introduction | 40 |
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