Tosta, Antonio Luciano de Andrade,

Confluence narratives : ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas / Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta. - Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

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.



9781611487565

2016048245


Ethnicity in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
Nationalism and literature--America.
Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects--America.
Comparative literature--American and Latin American.
Comparative literature--Latin American and American.


Electronic Books.

PN843 / .C664 2016