A genealogy of literary multiculturalism Douglas, Christopher
Material type: TextPublication details: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2011Description: vii, 372 pISBN:- 9780801477119
- American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism
- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Minorities in literature
- Literature and anthropology - United States - History - 20th century
- Multiculturalism - United States - History - 20th century
- Anthropology - United States - History - 20th century
- 810.93552 D6G3
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In A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds. Douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the United States into three periods. The first, which spans the 1920s and 1930s, features minority writers such as Hurston and D'Arcy McNickle, who were indebted to the work of Boas and his attempts to detach culture from race.
The second period, from 1940 to the mid-1960s, was a time of assimilation and integration, as seen in the work of authors such as Richard Wright, Jade Snow Wong, John Okada, and Ralph Ellison, who were influenced by currents in sociological thought. The third period focuses on the writers we associate with contemporary literary multiculturalism, including Toni Morrison, N. Scott Momaday, Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Douglas shows that these more recent writers advocated a literary nationalism that was based on a modified Boasian anthropology and that laid the pluralist grounds for our current conception of literary multiculturalism. (http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100889260)
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