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Book SynopsisExamining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, this book compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures within US minority literature.
Trade Review"[] Patells brief assessment of each author or text provides a useful stepping stone for other scholars who can build on his work, so the book concludes by opening up the debate and paving the way for others to join in." * The Review of English Studies *
"Emergent U.S. Literatureswill be anessentialtext for understanding the historical forces at work in the ways in which we define American literature today. An ambitious piece of scholarship, Cyrus Patell draws from an impressive knowledge of major works in emergent literatures, showing us not only how these literatures have developed in conversation with each other but also pushing us to think about the cosmopolitan nature of creative expression." -- Min Hyoung Song,author of The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
"InEmergent U.S. LiteraturesCyrus R.K. Patell makes a key distinction between the previously preferred term multiculturaland newly favored wordcosmopolitanwhen describing what he calls & emergent literatures." * American Literary Scholarship *
"Patells close reading of a wide array of writersJessica Hagedorn, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Monette, and N. Scott Momaday, among othersis skillful and sensitive." * American Literature *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Theorizing the Emergent 1 1 From Marginal to Emergent 19 2 Nineteenth-Century Roots 47 3 The Politics of Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literary History 89 4 Liberation Movements 115 5 Multiculturalism and Beyond 187 Conclusion: Emergent Literatures and Cosmopolitan 235 Conversation Notes 241 Index 271 About the Author 285
