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Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611487565
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN843 .C664 2016
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Contents:
Subject: Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Informed by postcolonial theory, this book analyzes a selection of novels from North and South Americas to discuss the impact of ethnicity in the construction of national identities, highlight the inherently transcultural aspect of the American character, and to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: The Native American, Hybridity, and Mestiçagem in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Breviário das Terras do Brasil and Laura Esquivel's Malinche; Chapter Two: Escaping the Nation?; Chapter Three: Jewish Puzzles; Chapter Four: Memory, Difference, and the Struggle for Belonging in Jorge J. Okubaro's O Súdito: (Banzai, Massateru!) and Joy Kogawa's Obasan; Epilogue; Bibliography; Permissions; Index; About the Author

Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Informed by postcolonial theory, this book analyzes a selection of novels from North and South Americas to discuss the impact of ethnicity in the construction of national identities, highlight the inherently transcultural aspect of the American character, and to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation.

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