Immigrants - United States, Society & Culture in Literature, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnic & Minority Studies - United States, Ethnology
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Overview
In Through a Glass Darkly, William Boelhower applies semiotics to the study of American ethnicity, incorporating a wide range of critical references--from Umberto Eco to Michel Serres--and providing a provocative new model for an understanding of American texts. He questions currently popular ideas about the American literary canon, and allows us to recognize literature as a productive force that may Americanize and ethnicize readers. In doing so, he provides fresh insights into a wide variety of texts, ranging from Crévecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. A probing, thoughtful work, Through a Glass Darkly reveals that the ethnic sign is everywhere, and that ethnic writing is American writing.
Book Details
Published
April 2, 1987
Publisher
New York Oxford University Press 1987, c1984
Pages
154
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780195041941