United States : re-viewing American multicultural literature / A. Robert Lee.

Articles, essays, papers, and reviews previously published in various publications between 1978 and 2008. Some slightly revised in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. Overviews, Review-Essays, Interviews, Reviews -- Ethnics Behaving Badly: U.S. Multicultural Narratives -- Multicultural Renaissance: Rudolfo Anaya. Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston -- Decolonizing America: Ernest Gaines, José Antonio Villareal, Leslie Marmon Silko, Shawn Wong -- Black American Fiction since Richard Wright -- I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen-Fictions of the Indian, Native Fictions -- Imagined Cities of China: Timothy Mo's London, Sky Lee's Vancouver, Fay Myenne Ng's San Francisco and Gish Jen's New York -- Insider, Outsider: Japanese America Writing Japan -- Ethnicities Old and New in American Theatre: LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdez, Frank Chin, and Hanay Geiogamah -- Ethnicity, Race and Life Writing -- Sleuthing American Ethnicity -- Afro-America, the Before Columbus Foundation and the Literary Multiculturalization of America -- U.S. Multicultural Pathways -- Missing Pages: Admissions and Omissions in Oxford's American Poetry -- Margins at the Center -- China Magic, Barrio Magic -- Iconic Dates -- Latin Sights -- Ask Your Mama: Langston Hughes, the Blues, and Black Studies -- Hurts, Absurdities and Violence: The Contrary Dimensions of Chester Himes -- Postindian Comments: Gerald Vizenor -- Chinatowns, Railroads, and Lanterns: Frank Chin -- Outside Shadow: Louis Owens -- Western Sightings: John G. Cawelti -- Denver Mysteries: Rex Burns -- Talking Multiculture: A. Robert Lee with Nicholas Williams.

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