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Product details
- ISBN 9780748612277
- Weight: 463g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Prizewinner in the twenty-fifth annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS for 2004, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. A full, detailed and carefully comparative analysis of recent American ‘ethnic’ writing from an author with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject. Timely, wide-ranging and informative, this book covers the writing – in both fiction and autobiography – of Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American authors including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, Lesley 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.This is the first book of its kind – while there are books available which introduce one or other of the ethnic traditions, no one has yet considered them in comparative terms in a single volume. As such it will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in multicultural American literature.Selling Points• First single volume comparative analysis of recent American ‘ethnic’ writing• Timely, wide-ranging and informative• Covers both fiction and autobiography
A. Robert Lee has taught at the University of Kent in the UK and at Nihon University in
Japan. His more than forty book publications include two previously from Edinburgh
University Press: Multicultural American Literature (2003), which won the American
Book Award in 2004, and The Beats: Authorships, Legacies (2019). He has held
visiting professorships at Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, the University
of Colorado, the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley.
