000			05082nam a22004938i 4500
001			BRILL9789004656505
003			nllekb
005			20260610104839.0
007			cr un uuuua
008			240309s1997 gw sb 001 0 eng d
020			_a9789004656505 _q(electronic book)
020			_z9789042002227 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789004656505 _2DOI
035			_z(OCoLC)37557144
040			_aNL-LeKB _cNL-LeKB _erda
041			_aeng
050		4	_aPN56.E735
072		7	_aJFC _2bicssc
072		7	_aSOC _x022000 _2bisacsh
072		7	_aSOC _x026000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a809.8896 _223
245	1	0	_aLiterature and Ethnic Discrimination / _cedited by Michael J. Meyer.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c1997.
264		4	_c©1997
300			_a1 online resource (232 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLiterature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
490	1		_aRodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; _v18
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tPreliminary Material / _rEditor: Michael J. Meyer -- [[Untitled]] / _rFrederick Douglas and Kahlil Gibran -- Introduction / _rDr. Michael Meyer -- Dedication and Acknowledgments / _rEditor: Michael J. Meyer -- 1. Religious Skirmishes: When the Ethnic Outsider Cannot Hear "The Loudest Voice" / _rKaren Surman Paley -- 2. Sam, Walter Lee, and the Powerless Black Male / _rCharles Trainor -- 3. Willa Cather's America, a Nation of Nations / _rS. Krishnamoorthy Aithal -- 4. Speaking Through Silences: Ethnicity in the Writings of Italian/American Women / _rEdvige Giunta -- 5. Loss and Growth of Identity in Shimon Wincelberg's Resort 76 / _rEric Sterling -- 6. Time and Place have had their Say: Literature and Ethnic Discrimination in Zora Neale Hurston's Aesthetics / _rAna María Fraile Marcos -- 7. Rediscovering Nation, Resisting Racial Oppression: The Aesthetics of "Putting Up" in U.S. Third World Writing / _rTim Libretti -- 8. What God has Put Asunder: The Politics of Ethnic Barriers in Chukwuemeka Ike's Toads for Supper and Isidore Okpewho's The Last Duty. / _rObododimma Oha -- 9. East/West Paradigms of History and Fiction: Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe / _rEva Darias-Beautell -- 10. Women Before Hell's Gate: Survivors of the Holocaust and their Memoirs / _rPeter R. Erspamer -- 11. From Nuyorican Barrio Literature to Issues on Puerto Rican Literature Outside New York City: Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortiz Cofer / _rRafael Ocasio -- 12. Fetishized Blackness: Racial Desire in Contemporary Japanese Narrative and Culture / _rNina Cornyetz -- Abstracts of Arguments / _rEditor: Michael J. Meyer -- Notes on the authors / _rEditor: Michael J. Meyer.
520			_aEven though universities and colleges make a concerted effort to foster unity and worldwide acceptance of different ethnicities by including politically correct literature in their curriculums, their attempts to protect students from being exposed to texts that portray discrimination and exhibit racial insensitivity are futile and ill-advised. Texts that contain biases based on otherness continue to be written and those produced in the past remain relevant and still demand the attention of an audience of reader. In order to see the full picture of the world in which they live, students must face even that which is uncomfortable and disturbing. To think otherwise is to create and academic environment that is totally idealistic and distorts the fact that ethnic discrimination has been a potent reality in every society in history and remains so today. These studies in this volume allow readers to meet writers from the traditional American and European canon while also being exposed to third world writers whose work may be unfamiliar. They include memoirs of Holocaust survivors and even record the silencing of Italian women, Apartheid in South Africa and tribal conflict in Nigeria as well as transplanted Asian culture in Canada and the idolization of the black body in Japan. The collection permits a viewing of the ethnic ‘other' not merely in a politically correct way in which one samples the differences and nods approvingly. Rather its intent is to offer opportunities for contemplative assessment of authorial motives and goals, thereby engendering a wealth of understanding based on active engagement rather than passive acceptance of the status quo.
546			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aDiscrimination in literature.
650		0	_aEthnicity in literature.
700	1		_aMeyer, Michael J., _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tLiterature and Ethnic Discrimination. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 1997. _z9789042002227
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
830		0	_aRodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; _v18.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004656505
999			_c15321 _d15321