All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures
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All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures

All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures

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Bonnie TuSmith (Author)  

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All My Relatives challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism. Highlighting works by Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, N. Scott Momaday, Tomas Rivera, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker, and John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith shows that a "first language of community" exists within the cultures of ethnic Americans and is evident in their literary texts. TuSmith suggests that the proper understanding of these texts demands that we dismiss an interpretive frame borrowed from European-American literature. All My Relatives provides a new way of reading popular works such as The Woman Warrior, The Joy Luck Club, The Color Purple and John Edgar Wideman's Sent for You Yesterday. TuSmith's study will appeal to general readers as well as students and scholars of American culture, ethnic studies, and American literature.
  • Contributor: Bonnie TuSmith
  • Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
  • ISBN13: 9780472082858
  • Number of Pages: 232
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 370
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Release Date: 1994-08-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback

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