TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tosta,Antonio Luciano de Andrade
TI  - Confluence narratives: ethnicity, history, and nation-making in the Americas 
SN  - 9781611487565
AV  - PN843 .C664 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - Ethnicity in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - National characteristics in literature
KW  - Nationalism and literature
KW  - America
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - American and Latin American
KW  - Latin American and American
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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