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Book SynopsisProvides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct field of study, this unprecedented volume brings together a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches to offer analyses of African American, Latinx, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American literatures, among others. Chapters written by a diverse panel of leading contributors explore how multiethnic texts represent racial, ethnic, and other identities, center the lives and work of the marginalized and oppressed, facilitate empathy with the experiences of others, challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, and other hateful rhetoric, and much more. Informed by re
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Introduction: What is Multiethnic Literature of the United States? 1
Gary Totten
Part I: Contexts 11
1 The Multiethnic Archive 13
Emily Ruth Rutter
2 Popular Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 26
Christopher González
3 Displaced Subjects and Refugee Aesthetics: Contemporary Southeast Asian American Literature 40
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
4 Print Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Shifting Constructions of Black Print Cultures 51
Joycelyn K. Moody and Corey D. Greathouse
5 The Environment and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 65
Gregory Toy
6 Translation and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 77
Marlene Hansen Esplin
7 Multiethnic Digital Humanities: Practices, Theories, Case Studies 89
David S. Roh
8 Critical Race Theory and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 103
Christina Hsu Accomando
9 Gender and Material Culture in Multiethnic Literature of the United States: On Black Women's Textiles and Textuality 117
Mary I. Unger
10 Social Class and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 131
Scott Henkel
Part II: Geographies 143
11 The US South and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 145
Kirstin L. Squint
12 Transpacific Routes of Asian American Literature 157
Steven Yao
13 The US West and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 169
Emily Lutenski
14 Hemispheric, Transnational, and Comparative Approaches to Multiethnic Literature of the United States 181
Vincent Pérez
Part III: Genres 197
15 Multiethnic Fiction of the US Empire: Why Read Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Novels Together? 199
Caroline H. Yang
16 Aesthetic Discourse and Experimentation in Multiethnic Poetics of the United States 210
Laura Vrana
17 Multiethnic Life Writing of the United States 224
Eleanor Ty and William Kummer
18 Multiethnic Theatre of the United States 237
Jessica E. Teague and Arianna Razo
19 Multiethnic Graphic Narratives of the United States 249
Frederick Luis Aldama
20 Multiethnic Science Fiction of the United States 256
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
21 Multiethnic Children's and Young Adult Literature of the United States: From Painful Histories to Action and Progress 269
Cristina Rhodes
22 Neo-Passing and the (Re)Construction of Race in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Multiethnic Literature of the United States 281
Martha J. Cutter
23 The New Novel of Slavery in the Twenty-First Century 292
Mark Eaton
Part IV: Themes 305
24 Politics and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Black Census and the Colored Conventions Movement 307
Sarah Lynn Patterson
25 Food and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 322
Wenying Xu
26 Travel, Mobility, and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 334
Gary Totten
27 Cultural Citizenship and Belonging in Multiethnic Literature of the United States 346
Tracy Floreani
28 The Body and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 358
Joanna Ziarkowska
29 Humor and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 371
Jennifer Glaser
30 Crime and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Mafia Frame—How America Came to Read the Gangster as Italian American 385
Joe Kraus
31 Religion and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 396
Danielle Haque
Index 408
