{"product_id":"invention-of-ethnicity-the","title":"Invention of Ethnicity, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of \"ethnicity\" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition.  It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the\n\u003cbr\u003eunderlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents:  On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed.  Introduction:  The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors.  An American\n\u003cbr\u003eWriter, Richard Rodriguez.  A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time \"Jewesses\", Alide Cagidemetrio.  Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen.  Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn.  Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women:  A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti.  Ethnic Trilogies:  A Genealogical and Generational\n\u003cbr\u003ePoetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place:  The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro.  Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray.  Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156680503534,"sku":"9780195050479","price":146.63,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/invention-of-ethnicity-the","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}