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Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the "price of admissin" into the new literar canon. This work questions the current process, arguing that texts are added to the canon only after an operation that attempts to resolve and neutralize historical and political contradictions and differences.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Instituting minor literatures: "border" studies - the intersection of gender and colour, Paula Gunn Allen; canon, institutionalization, identity - contradictions for Aisian American studies, Lisa Lowe. Part 2 the construction of the ethnic: the borders of modernity - Americo Paredes's "Between Two Worlds" and the Chicano national subject, Ramon Saldivar; Telling the difference - representatins of identity in the discourse of Indianness, Jana Sequoya-Magdaleno; the politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" - dialogic criticism and African American literature, Elliott Butler-Evans; tropology of hunger - the "miseducation" of Richard Rodriguez, Norma Alarcon; calculated musings - Richard Rodriguez's metaphysics of difference, Rosaura Sanchez; "sugar sisterhood" - situating the Amy Tan phenomenon, Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong. Part 3 The ethnic, the nation and the canon: in search of Filipino writing - reclaiming whose "America"?, E. San Juan Jr; a rough terrain - the case of shaping an anthology of Caribbean women writers, Barbara Christian; "M. Butterfly" and the rhetoric of anti-essentialism - minority discourse in an international frame, Colleen Lye.
