Beyond the Borders

American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory

By: Deborah L. Madsen (Editor)

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15 August 2003 | Edition Number 1

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The contributors to this book challenge the usual boundaries of "post-colonial" theory. Focusing on American literature, they examine how America's own imperial history has shaped the literatures that have emerged from within America - for instance, from Native American, Latino, Black and Asian-American writers. They contrast this with postcolonial literatures from countries whose history has been shaped by American colonialism - from Canada, Central America and the Caribbean to Hawaii, Indonesia and Vietnam. In this way the contributors explore key questions about national identity and multiculturalism: why, for instance, is a Native writer categorized within "American literature" if writing on one side of the border, but as "Canadian" and "post-colonial" if writing on the other? This is a challenging collection that raises questions not only about the boundaries of post-colonial theory, but also about ethnicity and multiculturalism, and the impact of immigration and assimilation - issues that lie at the heart of the literary curriculum.

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"a mass of interesting stuff here that scholars in the field will want to read" Dr Maria Lauret, School of English and American Studies, Sussex. 'This collection of essays on the field of post-colonial studies, offers perspectives on texts from both sides of the Atlantic, challenging the emerging consensus on post-colonial literatures in the process. The contributors dicuss a diversity of related topics, from case studies of specific authors to theoretical investigations of such fundamental questions as the role of literary study within multicultural societies.' Review of Post-Colonial Literatures

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Introduction: American Literature and Post-colonial Theory	p. 1
Ethnic Literature and Post-colonialism
Indigenous Literatures and Postcolonial Theories: Reading from Comparative Frames	p. 15
Post-colonialism at Home
"Going Into a Whole Different Country": Postcolonial "Nation"-hood in Native American Literature	p. 31
Origin Story: On Being a White Native American(ist)	p. 51
Counter-Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Chicana Writing	p. 65
"At Least One Negro Everywhere": African American Travel Writing	p. 77
Unsettling Asian American Literature: When More than America is in the Heart	p. 92
Forging a Postcolonial Identity: Women of Chinese Ancestry Writing in English	p. 111
Border Crossings: Filipino American Literature in the United States	p. 122
Reading the Literatures of Hawai'i Under an "Americanist" Rubric	p. 135
Post-colonialism in the Border Regions
Writing Migrations: The Place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature	p. 151
Diasporic Disconnections: Insurrection and Forgetfulness in Contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean Women's Literature	p. 167
Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of Place	p. 184
Thomas King and Contemporary Indigenous Identities	p. 195
American Post-colonialism at Home and Abroad
Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context	p. 209
Politics, Pleasure, and Intertextuality in Contemporary Southeast Asian Women's Writing	p. 222
U.S. and US: American Literatures of Immigration and Assimilation	p. 238
List of Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 253
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