Lee, A. Robert, 1941-

Multicultural American literature : comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions / A. Robert Lee. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2003. - 307 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Introduction: America and the Multicultural Word: Legacies, Maps, Vistas, Theory -- 1. Landmarks: Ellison, Momaday, Anaya, Kingston -- 2. Selves: Autobiography, Autoethnicity, Autofiction -- 3. Afro-America: Styling Modern and Contemporary Fictions -- 4. 'I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen': Fictions of the Indian, Native Fictions -- 5. Chicanismo, La Raza, Aztlan: Fictions of Memory -- 6. Eat a Bowl of Tea: Fictions of America's Asia, Fictions of Asia's America -- 7. Sites: Indian Country, Asiatown, Black City, Barrio, Borderland, Migrancy -- 8. Island America: Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti -- 9. The Postmodern Turn: Metafiction, Playfield, Ventriloquy -- 10. Epilogue: Fictions of Whiteness.

"Multicultural American Literature covers the writing - in both fiction and autobiography - of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jessica Hagedorn. Taking a cultural studies perspective. A Robert Lee recognises the context of politics and popular culture and draws on the visual as well as the literary spectrum."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 1578066441 (cloth : alk. paper) 157806645X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1578066441 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003018890

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
International Baccalaureate
Minorities--Intellectual life.--United States
Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS153.M56 / .L44 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/920693