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In ihrem Werk ergründet Nelson die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Ethik und zieht dafür von Fotografie über Film bis hin zu Literatur und Malerei Beispiele heran, die sie punktgenau analysiert. Ihr Anliegen ist, zu untersuchen, inwiefern Kunst, die Grausamkeit thematisiert, in einer ohnehin grausamen Welt von Bedeutung ist, was ihre Motivation und ihre Wirkungen sind. Nelson verzichtet dabei auf Werke mit eindeutiger moralischer Aussage sowie au...

The twelve essays that form this book, first published in 1993, interpret Bharati Mukherjee¿s oeuvre from a variety of critical perspectives. The authors¿ approaches range from the biographical to the poststructuralist, from cultural analysis to comparative commentary to deconstructive reading.

While other works cover individual ethnic literary traditions, this encyclopedia is the first to offer a comprehensive introduction to the spectacularly diverse range of ethnic American writing. Included are more than 1100 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 300 scholars. While most of the entries are biographical, others cover genres, ethnic stereotypes, seminal works, significant places, major historical events, key pieces of legisl...

Bio-bibliographical and critical studies of fifty-seven important gay American fiction writers.

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Adopting the concept of "diaspora" - literally "dispersal", or the scattering of a people - to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian subcontinental origin in other areas of the world, Emmanuel Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing.

Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling...

Includes entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945 provide biographical information, discussions of major works and themes, summaries of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographical citations.

Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and...

Provides alphabetically arranged entries on the lives and writings of 70 Asian American novelists.

With a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in their writings. Conversely, most contemporary gay poets and playwrights are free from such constraints and have created a remarkable body of work. This reference is a guide to their creative achievements. Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contemporary gay American poets and dramatists. A number of these writers are well known, in...

During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This force has been gathering momentum since the 1950s, when James Baldwin published some of his most compelling works and Ralph Ellison stunned the literary establishment with his dazzling Invisible Man (1952). Empowered by the Civil Rights Movement and revitalized by the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, this force became ...