The Postethnic Literary : Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 /
Sedlmeier, Florian
The Postethnic Literary : Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 / Florian Sedlmeier. - 1 online resource (226 p.) - Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 48 0340-5435 ; .
Frontmatter -- Preface: Read, Again -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature -- 1. Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form -- 2. Copies, Lists, and Reading Publics in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker -- 3. Exhaustion, Abstraction, and the Longing for Postethnic Literary Presence in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy -- Coda. The How is the What: Constellations of the Postethnic Literary This study has explored the epistemological conditions -- Works Cited -- Index
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The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form. By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110373707 9783110409116 9783110368482
10.1515/9783110368482 doi
2014034206
American literature--Criticism, Textual.
Authorship.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Paratext.
Autorschaft.
Gegenwartsliteratur.
Postkolonialismus.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship. Contemporary Literature. Postcolonialism.
PS25 / .S45 2014 PS25 / .S45 2014
810.9/355
The Postethnic Literary : Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 / Florian Sedlmeier. - 1 online resource (226 p.) - Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 48 0340-5435 ; .
Frontmatter -- Preface: Read, Again -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Paratexts, Transpositions, and Postethnic Literature -- 1. Breaching the Autobiographical Pact: Sherman Alexie and the Ethics of Reading for Form -- 2. Copies, Lists, and Reading Publics in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker -- 3. Exhaustion, Abstraction, and the Longing for Postethnic Literary Presence in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy -- Coda. The How is the What: Constellations of the Postethnic Literary This study has explored the epistemological conditions -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form. By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110373707 9783110409116 9783110368482
10.1515/9783110368482 doi
2014034206
American literature--Criticism, Textual.
Authorship.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Paratext.
Autorschaft.
Gegenwartsliteratur.
Postkolonialismus.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship. Contemporary Literature. Postcolonialism.
PS25 / .S45 2014 PS25 / .S45 2014
810.9/355