Reconstituting Americans : liberal multiculturalism and identity difference in post-1960s literature
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Reconstituting Americans : liberal multiculturalism and identity difference in post-1960s literature
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
1st ed
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Bibliography: p. [205]-219
Includes index
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Description
Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks.
Table of Contents
The Liberal Multicultural Paradox and Aesthetics of Internal Distantiation Psychic Distantiation: Audre Lorde, Traumatic Formalism, and New Social Movement Identities Hybrid Distantiation: Uses of Sexuality in the Fiction of Arturo Islas Inter(national) Distantiation: Jamaica Kincaid, Reginald McKnight, and the Cosmopolitan Novel Academic Investments in Liberal Multiculturalism: Bharati Mukherjee's Representational vs. Distantiative Aesthetics Internal Distantiation in the 21st Century Survey Results: Jasmine and The Holder of the World
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