Migration - Miscegenation - Transculturation: Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century

by Carmen Birkle

Overview

This study examines short stories written by ethnic and women writers between the 1880s and 1920s and focuses on these stories' reflection of changes in the United States, particularly those caused by (im)migration and emancipation movements. Ethnicity and gender are the guiding categories in the analysis of migration, miscegenation, and transculturation in cultural contact zones. This detailed investigation gives voice to a broad spectrum of writers from Native, African-, German-, Jewish-, Chinese-, and Mexican-American backgrounds, ultimately leading to a reconsideration of the canon of American literature. The evolving patterns developed in Migration - Miscegenation - Transculturation provide a context for the analysis of ethnicity and gender in Western societies in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783825315559
Publisher:	Universitatsverlag Winter
Publication date:	01/05/2004
Series:	American Studies - A Monograph Series , #114
Pages:	375
Product dimensions:	5.28(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)