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Book SynopsisEssays in which the ethnic literatures of North America are added to the developing postcolonial canon
Table of Contents1. Beyond the Commonwealth: Post-Colonialism and American Literature by Deborah L. Madsen (South Bank University)
2. Post-colonialism in the United States: Diversity or Hybridity? by Karen Piper (University of Missouri, Columbia)
3. Ethical Reading and Resistant Texts by Patricia Linton (University of Alaska, Anchorage)
4. Fractures: Written Displacements in Canadian/US Literary Relations by Richard J. Lane (South Bank University)
5. The Rhythm of Difference: Language and Silence in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and The Piano by Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Dundee)
6. Locating and Celebrating Difference: Writing by South African and Aboriginal Women Writers by Gina Wisker (Anglia Polytechnic University)
7. Coming in from the Margins: Gender in Contemporary Zimbabwean Writing by Pauline Dodgson (Thames Valley University)
8. The Memory of Slavery in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts by Gail Low (University of Dundee)
9. 'Versioning' the Revolution: Gender and Politics in Merle Collins's Angel by Suzanne Scafe (South Bank University )
10. Erupting Funk: The Political Style of Toni Morrisonís Tar Baby and The Bluest Eye by Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire)
11. Afro-Hispanic Literature and Feminist Theories: Thinking Ethics by Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal (University of Rochester)
12. Chicano/a Literature: ‘An Active Interanimating Of Competing Discourses’ by Candida N. Hepworth (University of Wales, Swansea)
13. Border Theory and the Canon by Debra A. Castillo (Cornell University)
14. Racialism and Liberation in Native American Literature by Lee Schweninger (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
15. Ants in the System: ‘Thinking Strongly’ about Native American Stories by Robert Gregory (University of Kentucky)
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