The Postethnic Literary(English, Electronic book text, Sedlmeier Florian)

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The Postethnic Literary(English, Electronic book text, Sedlmeier Florian) is written by Sedlmeier Florian and published by De Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 311036848X (ISBN 10) and 9783110368482 (ISBN 13).

The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form. By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers.