Research Catalog

Title

Reconstituting Americans : liberal multiculturalism and identity difference in post-1960s literature / Megan Obourn.

Author

Obourn, Megan.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Description

viii, 229 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• American literature > History and criticism
• Multiculturalism in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• American literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Citizenship in literature
• Liberalism in literature
• Cultural pluralism in literature > United States
• Cultural pluralism in literature
• American literature > Minority authors
• American literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM > General
• Literary studies: from c 1900 > USA
• Literary theory > USA
• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780230112476 (hc)
• 0230112471 (hc)

LCCN

^^2011005481

OCLC

701495657

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library