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Ethnic American Literature

Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing

By: Dean J. Franco

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Ethnic American Literature

Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing

By: Dean J. Franco

Offers a comparative approach to ethnic literature that begins by accounting for the intrinsic historical, geographical, and political contingencies of different American cultures. This work looks at a range of writing, from novels to literature.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813925606

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Ethnic American Literature

Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing

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Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing

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Race, Rights, and Recognition

Jewish American Literature since 1969

By: Dean J. Franco

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Race, Rights, and Recognition

Jewish American Literature since 1969

By: Dean J. Franco

In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-based rights and recognition that preoccupy Latino, African American, and Native American writers, they are generally suspicious of group identities and are more likely to adopt postmodern distancing techniques than to presume to speak for "their people." Ranging from Philip Roth's scandalous 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint to Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan in 2006, the literature Franco examines in this book is at once critical of and deeply invested in the problems of race and the rise of multicultural philosophies and policies in America. Franco argues that from the formative years of multiculturalism (1965-1975), Jewish writers probed the ethics and not just the politics of civil rights and cultural recognition; this perspective arose from a stance of keen awareness of the limits and possibilities of consensus-based civil and human rights. Contemporary Jewish writers are now responding to global problems of cultural conflict and pluralism and thinking through the challenges and responsibilities of cosmopolitanism. Indeed, if the United States is now correctly-if cautiously-identifying itself as a post-ethnic nation, it may be said that Jewish writing has been well ahead of the curve in imagining what a post-ethnic future might look like and in critiquing the social conventions of race and ethnicity.

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Cornell University Press

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0801464013

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The Border and the Line

Race, Literature, and Los Angeles

By: Dean J. Franco

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The Border and the Line

Race, Literature, and Los Angeles

By: Dean J. Franco

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection. Examining neighborhoods in east, south central, and west L.A.—and their imaginative representation by Chicana, African American, and Jewish American writers—this book investigates the moral and political implications of negotiating space. The Border and the Line takes up the central conceit of "the neighbor" to consider how the geography of racial identification and interracial encounters are represented and even made possible by literary language. Dean J. Franco probes how race is formed and transformed in literature and in everyday life, in the works of Helena María Viramontes, Paul Beatty, James Baldwin, and the writers of the Watts Writers Workshop. Exploring metaphor and metonymy, as well as economic and political circumstance, Franco identifies the potential for reconciliation in the figure of the neighbor, an identity that is grounded by geographical boundaries and which invites their crossing.

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Stanford University Press

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Jewish American Literature since 1969

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The Border and the Line

Race, Literature, and Los Angeles

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Race, Literature, and Los Angeles

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Ethnic American Literature

Ethnic American Literature

Ethnic American Literature

Ethnic American Literature

Race, Rights, and Recognition

Race, Rights, and Recognition

The Border and the Line

The Border and the Line

Race, Rights, and Recognition

Race, Rights, and Recognition

The Border and the Line

The Border and the Line

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