TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tosta,Antonio Luciano de Andrade
TI  - Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas
SN  - 9781611487565
AV  - PN843.T67 2016 
U1  - 810.9 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Bucknell University Press
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric) - Social aspects - America
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Native American, Hybridity, and Mestiçagem in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil's Breviário das Terras do Brasil and Laura Esquivel's Malinche -- Chapter Two: Escaping the Nation? -- Chapter Three: Jewish Puzzles -- Chapter Four: Memory, Difference, and the Struggle for Belonging in Jorge J. Okubaro's O Súdito: (Banzai, Massateru!) and Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, slavery, and immigration. Informed by postcolonial theory, this book analyzes a selection of novels from North and South Americas to discuss the impact of ethnicity in the construction of national identities, highlight the inherently transcultural aspect of the American character, and to problematize the concept of the contemporary nation
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