Ethnocriticism : ethnography, history, literature / Arnold Krupat.

Author
Krupat, Arnold [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Description
273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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Series
Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access) [More in this series]
Summary note
Studies Native Americans as subjects and producers of varieties of American discourse. Ethnocriticism is the name given to a particular perspective as this is manifested on the level of critical writing. On the pedagogical or curricular level, the ethnocritical perspective manifests itself in the form of multiculturalism, a term taken to refer to that particular organization of cultural studies which engages otherness and difference in such a way as to provoke an interrogation of and a challenge to what is ordinarily taken as familiar and one's own. On the level of cognitive ethics, the ethnocritical perspective is consistent with a recognition and legitimation of heterogeneity (rather than homogeneity) as the social and cultural norm.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-266) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Oakland, CA : eScholarship, California Digital Library. c2003. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Made available through eScholarship Editions.
Contents
  • Introduction : Ethnocriticism
  • Ethnography and literature : a history of their convergence
  • Modernism, irony, anthropology : the work of Franz Boas
  • Ethnographic conjuncturalism : the work of James Clifford
  • Figures and the law : rhetorical readings of Congressional and Cherokee texts
  • Literary "criticism"/Native American "literature"
  • Native American autobiography and the synecdochic self
  • Conclusion : For multiculturalism.
ISBN
  • 0585129819 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780585129815 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0520074475 ((alk. paper))
  • 9780520074477 ((alk. paper))
  • 0520076664 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
  • 9780520076662 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
OCLC
43476599
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