TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sedlmeier,Florian
TI  - The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 
T2  - Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
SN  - 9783110373707
AV  - PS25 .S45 2014
U1  - 810.9/355 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Ethnic groups in literature
KW  - Multiculturalism in literature
KW  - Paratext
KW  - Autorschaft
KW  - Gegenwartsliteratur
KW  - Postkolonialismus
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Contemporary Literature
KW  - Postcolonialism
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368482
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