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Race Characters
  • Language: en

Race Characters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial for they promise to atone for racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. In this book, Swati Rana builds on studies of character and racial form and offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates, through literary analysis, a fuller social reading of race"--

Race Characters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Race Characters

A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by ...

Indivisible
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Indivisible

The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America. Showcasing a diversity of forms, from traditional ghazals and sestinas to free verse, experimental writing, and slam poetry, Indivisible presents 141 poems by authors who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of their time and their place. Includes biographies of each poet.

The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature

A comprehensive study of how American racial history and culture have shaped, and have been shaped by, American literature.

Teaching Asian North American Texts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Teaching Asian North American Texts

From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Asian North American literature and media encompass a long history and a diverse variety of genres and aesthetic approaches. The essays in this volume provide context for understanding the history of Asian immigrants to the United States and Canada and the experiences of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Contributors address historical contexts, from the early enactment of Asian exclusion laws to the xenophobia following 9/11, and provide tools for textual analysis. The essays explore conventionally literary texts, genres such as mystery and speculative fiction, historical documents and legal texts, and visual media including films, photography, and graphic novels, emphasizing the ways that creators have crossed boundaries of genre and produced innovative new forms.

Objective Question Bank of Computer Awareness for General Competitions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Objective Question Bank of Computer Awareness for General Competitions

In a technology driven world, basic knowledge and awareness about computers is a must if we wish to lead a successful personal and professional life. Today Computer Awareness is considered as an important dimension in most of the competitive examinations like SSC, Bank PO/Clerk & IT Officer, UPSC & other State Level PSCs, etc. Objective questions covering Computer Awareness are asked in a number of competitive exams, so the present book which will act as an Objective Question Bank for Computer Awareness has been prepared keeping in mind the importance of the subject. This book has been divided into 22 chapters covering all the sections of Computer Awareness like Introduction to Computer, Com...

Contemporary Drift
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Contemporary Drift

What does it mean to call something “contemporary”? More than simply denoting what’s new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we’re living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the literature and film of our moment. In Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed resource for resolving that problem. Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemp...

The English Language Poetry of South Asians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

The English Language Poetry of South Asians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-24
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodologies. The transnational perspective taken establishes connections between colonial and postcolonial South Asian poetry in English as well as the poetry of the old and new diaspora and the Subcontinent. The poetry analysis covers the relevance of historical allusions as well as underlying concerns of gender, ethnicity and class. Comparisons are offered between poets of different places and time periods, yielding numerous sociopolitical paradigms that surface in the poetry.

Writing to the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Writing to the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Ultimately, Writing to the World is a sophisticated look at the intersection of print and the public sphere.

Feeling Backward
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Feeling Backward

'Feeling Backward' weighs the cost of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. It makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward.