Race, modernity, postmodernity : a look at the history and the literatures of people of color since the 1960s
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Race, modernity, postmodernity : a look at the history and the literatures of people of color since the 1960s
State University of New York Press, c1996
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Bibliography: p. 199-204
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reads and interprets eight works of literature by people of color, foregrounding the philosophical debate about modernity vs. postmodernity rather than solely issues of race.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments
1. Race, Modernity, Postmodernity: A Look at the History of People of Color since the 1960s
2. The Retreat from Modernity: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn
3. The Limits of Modernity: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and Andrea Lee's Sarah Phillips
4. Problematizing the Historical Past: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident
5. The Postmodern Subject: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and Richard Perry's Montgomery's Children
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Index
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