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Multicultural American LiteratureComparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions

By A. Robert Lee

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A full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative, this book covers the writing - in both fiction and autobiography - of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jessica Hagedorn. Taking a cultural studies perspective, A. Robert Lee recognises the context of politics and popular culture and draws on the visual as well as the literary spectrum.

This is the first book of its kind - while there are books available which introduce one or other of the ethnic traditions, no one has yet considered them in comparative terms in a single volume. As such it will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in multicultural American literature.
Selling Points

  • First single volume comparative analysis of recent American 'ethnic' writing
  • Timely, wide-ranging and informative
  • Covers both fiction and autobiography
Table of contents
Introduction: America and the Multicultural Word: Legacies, Vistas, Maps; 1. Landmarks: Ellison, Momaday, Anaya, Kingston; 2. A Different I: Autobiography, Autofiction, Autoethnicity; 3. Afro-American: Styling a Contemporary Fiction; 4. 'I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am An Indian With A Pen': Fictions of the Native, Native Fictions; 5. Chicanismo, La Raza, Aztlan: Fictions of Memory; 6. Eat A Bowl of Tea: Asian America, American Asia; 7. Topographies: Indian Country, Asiatown, Barrio, Border and Black City; 8. Life Cycles, Story Cycles; 9. Island America: Hawaii, Puerto Rico, The Philippines, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti, New York; 10. The Postmodern Turn: Playfield, Ventriloquy, Comedy; 11. Epilogue: Fictions of Whiteness.
About the author

A. Robert Lee

A. Robert Lee has taught at the University of Kent in the UK and at Nihon University in
Japan. His more than forty book publications include two previously from Edinburgh
University Press: Multicultural American Literature (2003), which won the American
Book Award in 2004, and The Beats: Authorships, Legacies (2019). He has held
visiting professorships at Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, the University
of Colorado, the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley.