Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2000
Published In
Postcolonial Theory And The United States: Race, Ethnicity, And Literature
Abstract
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid identities within nation-states and diasporic identities across national boundaries. Studies addressing issues of race, ethnicity, and empire in U.S. culture have provided some of the most innova-tive and controversial contributions to recent scholarship. "Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature" represents a new chapter in the emerging dialogues about the importance of borders on a global scale. This book collects nineteen essays written in the 1990s in this emergent field by both well established and up-and-coming scholars. Almost all the essays have been either especially written for this volume or revised for inclusion here.
Published By
University Press of Mississippi
Editor(s)
A. Singh and Peter Schmidt
Recommended Citation
A. Singh and Peter Schmidt. (2000). Postcolonial Theory And The United States: Race, Ethnicity, And Literature.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/68
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