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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... construction of self - identity and permeating the boundaries between the personal and the political , acts as a corrective to these images and provides a model for others who want to identify with the alternative subject position .
In Lisa Diedrich's analysis of doctors ' stories of AIDS , she takes up the patient's position and questions : “ who gets to tell AIDS narratives ? " ( 250 ) ; “ Do these doctors ' narratives occult their patients ' lives ?
While there is psychic pain in physical dislocation , for instance , there is also - as Amy Malek explains in her superb essay - the “ position of liminality ” which “ allows [ Satrapi ] to use a third space position from which to ...
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Introduction | 9 |
Memory Poetry and the Body | 22 |
An Introduction | 40 |
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