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The essays collected in Holding Their Own reflect the scope of scholarship in the field of U.S.
multi-ethnic literatures. Among the authors are eminent scholars such as Michel
Fabre, Elaine Kim, Nellie McKay, and Daniel Walden, with additional
contributions by scholars from seven European countries and the United States.
These articles demonstrate the broad range and variety of approaches in the
field, each chapter dealing with a fundamental question posed in contemporary
ethnic literary studies: "double consciousness" as a model for ethnic
awareness; the politics of location as reflected in space, place and home; the
(un)translatability of culture among ethnic groups; aesthetics and oppositional
poetics based on ethnicity; and the shifting categories of margin and center.
Among the numerous authors treated here are, for example, Toni Morrison, Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha, Bharati Mukherjee, Audre Lorde, Cynthia Ozick, Helena
María Viramontes.
Contents:
Preface
Dorothea
Fischer-Hornung and Heike Raphael-Hernandez: Introduction
Chapter I: That Double Consciousness and More
- Nellie McKay: African
American Literature and MELUS Europe: A Necessary Connection
- Michel Fabre: "In emulation, but
without jealousy": On the Literature of the New Orleans gens libres
de couleur
- Ineke Bockting: "That
Double Consciousness": Chicana/o Literature Between Loyalty and Betrayal
- Tobe Levin: Ill at Ease
with Mariam, Gloria Naylor’s Infibulated Jew
- Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez: Bilingual,
Interlingual – Language and Identity Construction in Mexican American
Literary Discourse
Chapter II: The Politics of Location: Space, Place and
Home
- Elaine H. Kim: Myth,
Memory, and Desire: Homeland and History in Contemporary Korean American
Writing and Visual Art
- Yesim Basarir: Bleak
Expectations: O.E. Rølvaag and the Legacy of Non-fulfillment
- Lene Johannessen: The Meaning of Place in
Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus
- Alison D. Goeller: Illness as Metaphor: The
Italian American Immigrant Experience in Tina De Rosa’s Paper
Fish
- Antje Kley: "There is no place / that
cannot be home / nor is": Constructions of ‘home’ in Audre
Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Chapter III: The (Un)Translatability of Culture
Pork Chops and alu gobi:
The (Un)Translatability of Culture in Mukherjee’s
Jasmine
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung:An Island Occupied:
The U.S. Marine Occupation of Haiti in Zora
Neale Hurston’s
Tell My Horse and Katherine Dunham’s Island
Possessed
Cathy Waegner: Toni
Morrison and the ‘Other’-Reader: Oprah Winfrey and Marcel Reich-Ranicki as
Mediators?
Dominique Marçais: The Presence of Africa in
Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Monika Müller: Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Race:
Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chapter IV: Oppositional Poetics
- Harryette Mullen: "Incessant Elusives": The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and Will
Alexander
- Barry Maxwell: "I hate it when things
become so pat as to be oppressive:" Staying Out of Range of the
Commonplace in Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook
- Kirsten Twelbeck: "‘Elle venait de loin’ –
Re-reading DICTEE"
- Carmen Birkle: "There is plenty of room for us all":
Charles W. Chesnutt’s America
Chapter V: The Margin Sustains the Center?
- Frances Smith Foster: Race, Region and the Politics of Slavery’s Memory
- Daniel Walden: Saul
Bellow, Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick: Dealing with Existentialism,
Evolving Moral Essentialism
- Susanne Klingenstein: The
Margin Sustains the Center: Eccentric Sources of Inspiration in Recent Jewish
American Fiction
- Marina Cacioppo: Italian
American Crime-Fiction From the 1890s to the 1930s: Bernardino Ciambelli,
Prosper Buranelli and Louis Forgione
- Carolyn Burmedi: Star Trek: Multi-race,
Multi-species, Multicultural?
Contributors and Editors
William Boelhower: Afterword
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