A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States

Gary Totten

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781119652564, 9781119652519
• eBook ISBN: 9781119652526
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States

A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct field of study, this unprecedented volume brings together a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches to offer analyses of African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others.

Chapters written by a diverse panel of leading contributors explore how multiethnic texts represent racial, ethnic, and other identities, center the lives and work of the marginalized and oppressed, facilitate empathy with the experiences of others, challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, and other hateful rhetoric, and much more. Informed by recent and leading-edge methodologies within the field, the Companion examines how theoretical approaches to multiethnic literature such as cultural studies, queer studies, ecocriticism, diaspora studies, and posthumanism inform literary scholarship, pedagogy, and curricula in the US and around the world.

• Explores the national, international, and transnational contexts of US ethnic literature
• Addresses how technology and digital access to archival materials are impacting the study, reception, and writing of multiethnic literature
• Discusses how recent developments in critical theory impact the reading and interpretation of multiethnic US literature
• Highlights significant themes and major critical trends in genres including science fiction, drama and performance, literary nonfiction, and poetry
• Includes coverage of multiethnic film, history, and culture as well as newer art forms such as graphic narrative and hip-hop
• Considers various contexts in multiethnic literature such as politics and activism, immigration and migration, and gender and sexuality

A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers studying all aspects of the subject

Table of contents

• A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: What is Multiethnic Literature of the United States?
• Part I: Contexts
• 1 The Multiethnic Archive
• 2 Popular Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 3 Displaced Subjects and Refugee Aesthetics: Contemporary Southeast Asian American Literature
• 4 Print Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Shifting Constructions of Black Print Cultures
• 5 The Environment and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 6 Translation and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 7 Multiethnic Digital Humanities: Practices, Theories, Case Studies
• 8 Critical Race Theory and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 9 Gender and Material Culture in Multiethnic Literature of the United States: On Black Women’s Textiles and Textuality
• 10 Social Class and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• Part II: Geographies
• 11 The US South and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 12 Transpacific Routes of Asian American Literature
• 13 The US West and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 14 Hemispheric, Transnational, and Comparative Approaches to Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• Part III: Genres
• 15 Multiethnic Fiction of the US Empire: Why Read Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Novels Together?
• 16 Aesthetic Discourse and Experimentation in Multiethnic Poetics of the United States
• 17 Multiethnic Life Writing of the United States
• 18 Multiethnic Theatre of the United States
• 19 Multiethnic Graphic Narratives of the United States
• 20 Multiethnic Science Fiction of the United States
• 21 Multiethnic Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the United States: From Painful Histories to Action and Progress
• 22 Neo-Passing and the (Re)Construction of Race in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Multiethnic Literature of the United S ates
• 23 The New Novel of Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
• Part IV: Themes
• 24 Politics and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Black Census and the Colored Conventions Movement
• 25 Food and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 26 Travel, Mobility, and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 27 Cultural Citizenship and Belonging in Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 28 The Body and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 29 Humor and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• 30 Crime and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Mafia Frame—How America Came to Read the Gangster as Italian Ame ican
• 31 Religion and Multiethnic Literature of the United States
• Index
• EULA