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A genealogy of literary multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas
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- Summary
- As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings in which she shaped a vision of African American Southern rural folk culture articulated through an antiracist concept of culture championed by Boas: culture as plural, relative, and long-lived. Meanwhile, a very different antiracist model of culture learned from Robert Park's sociology allowed Richard Wright to imagine African American culture in terms of severed traditions, marginal consciousness, and generation gaps. 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. Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theory" of multicultural literature brings together divergent African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American literary traditions into one story: of how we moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking about groups as cultures-and then back again
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 372 pages)
- Contents
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- Zora Neale Hurston, D'Arcy McNickle, and the culture of anthropology
- Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the literature of sociology
- Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and desegregation
- John Okada and the sociology of internment
- Américo Paredes and the folklore of the border
- Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and cultural nationalisms, 1965-1975
- N. Scott Momaday : blood and identity
- Ishmael Reed and the search for survivals
- Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec survivals
- Conclusion : the multicultural complex and the incoherence of literary multiculturalism
- Isbn
- 9780801458521
- Label
- A genealogy of literary multiculturalism
- Title
- A genealogy of literary multiculturalism
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher Douglas
- Subject
-
- 1900-1999
- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Minority authors
- American literature -- Minority authors | History and criticism
- Anthropology
- Anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature and anthropology
- Minderheitenliteratur
- Minorities in literature
- Minorities in literature
- Multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- USA
- United States
- Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the last ex-slave to survive the Middle Passage, and collected music from Jamaica. Her ethnographic work would serve as the basis for her novels and other writings in which she shaped a vision of African American Southern rural folk culture articulated through an antiracist concept of culture championed by Boas: culture as plural, relative, and long-lived. Meanwhile, a very different antiracist model of culture learned from Robert Park's sociology allowed Richard Wright to imagine African American culture in terms of severed traditions, marginal consciousness, and generation gaps. 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. Ultimately, Douglas's "unified field theory" of multicultural literature brings together divergent African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American literary traditions into one story: of how we moved from thinking about groups as races to thinking about groups as cultures-and then back again
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Douglas, Christopher
- Dewey number
- 810.9/3552
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- LC call number
- PS153.M56
- LC item number
- D68 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American literature
- American literature
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Minorities in literature
- Literature and anthropology
- Multiculturalism
- Anthropology
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American literature
- American literature
- Anthropology
- Literature and anthropology
- Minorities in literature
- Multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism in literature
- United States
- Minderheitenliteratur
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- USA
- Label
- A genealogy of literary multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-361) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Zora Neale Hurston, D'Arcy McNickle, and the culture of anthropology -- Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the literature of sociology -- Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and desegregation -- John Okada and the sociology of internment -- Américo Paredes and the folklore of the border -- Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and cultural nationalisms, 1965-1975 -- N. Scott Momaday : blood and identity -- Ishmael Reed and the search for survivals -- Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec survivals -- Conclusion : the multicultural complex and the incoherence of literary multiculturalism
- Control code
- 726824335
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 372 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780801458521
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.7591/9780801458521
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4rv3b
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)726824335
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- A genealogy of literary multiculturalism, Christopher Douglas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-361) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Zora Neale Hurston, D'Arcy McNickle, and the culture of anthropology -- Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the literature of sociology -- Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and desegregation -- John Okada and the sociology of internment -- Américo Paredes and the folklore of the border -- Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and cultural nationalisms, 1965-1975 -- N. Scott Momaday : blood and identity -- Ishmael Reed and the search for survivals -- Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec survivals -- Conclusion : the multicultural complex and the incoherence of literary multiculturalism
- Control code
- 726824335
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 372 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780801458521
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.7591/9780801458521
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt4rv3b
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)726824335
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- 1900-1999
- American literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Minority authors
- American literature -- Minority authors | History and criticism
- Anthropology
- Anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature and anthropology
- Minderheitenliteratur
- Minorities in literature
- Minorities in literature
- Multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Multiculturalism in literature
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- USA
- United States
- Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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