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The Ethnic Canon Histories, Institutions, and Interventions David Palumbo-Liu, editor |
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Who determines what ethnic literature gets included in the standard educational canon? How does this decision making occur? The Ethnic Canon 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. The Ethnic Canon offers a wide variety of critical viewpoints and speaks to the history and practice of canon formation within specific ethnic literatures. It is a unique collection in its pointed critique of the academy regarding particular authors and texts that have and have not been included in the canon. The texts examined include Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Américo Paredes's Between Two Worlds, Richard Rodriquez's Days of Obligation, and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, along with the novels of Amy Tan, Filipino works, and Caribbean women's writings. "This set of studies offers up a sharp, hard-edged critique of the institutionalization of ethnic studies in the modern university from a left-academic position." —American Literature Contributors include Norma Alarcón, Paula Gunn Allen, Elliott Butler-Evans, Barbara Christian, Lisa Lowe, Colleen Lye, Ramón Saldívar, E. San Juan Jr., Rosaura Sánchez, Jana Sequoya-Magdaleno, and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong David Palumbo-Liu is assistant professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. 288 pages | 1995 |
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$32.50 Paper