Cultural difference & the literary text : pluralism & the limits of authenticity in North American literatures - Siemerling, Winfried, 1956-; Schwenk, Katrin, 1965- (Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1996)
Introduction: thinking about "pure pluralism" / Katrin Schwenk -- Multicultural furor: the reception of Other solitudes / LindaHutcheon -- Cultural authenticity and the construction of Pan-Indian metanarrative / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- Postindian autoinscriptions: the origins of essentialism and pluralism in descriptive tribal names / Gerald Vizenor -- Democratic blues: Houston Baker and the representation of culture / Winfried Siemerling -- Raising Cane on the theoretical plane: Jean Toomer's racial personae / Kathryne V. Lindberg -- Humor and identity in ethnic autobiography: Zora Neale Hurston and Jerre Mangione / John Lowe -- Crossing borders: an aesthetic practice in writings by Gloria Anzaldua / Monika Kaup -- New mestizos: traces of a quincentenary miracle in Old World Spanish and New World English texts / Ernest Rudin -- Marginality and William Faulkner's Light in August / Michael Wachholz -- The multi-voiced basis of Henry Roth's literary success in Call it sleep / Gert Buelens -- Comments / Werner Sollors.
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