Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of by Randy Boyagoda
By Randy Boyagoda
Salman Rushdie as soon as saw that William Faulkner was once the author most often mentioned by way of 3rd global authors as their significant effect. encouraged by means of the unforeseen strains of impact and sympathy that Rushdie’s assertion implied, this booklet seeks to appreciate connections among American and worldwide event as discernible in twentieth-century fiction. the global imprint of contemporary American adventure has, of past due, invited reappraisals of canonical writers and vintage nationwide topics from globalist views. Advancing this line of severe inquiry, this e-book argues that the paintings of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner finds a century-long transformation of ways American identification and event were imagined, and that those variations were provoked by way of new varieties of immigration and by means of unanticipated mixings of cultures and ethnic teams. This publication makes ideas: first, it locations a latest global writer’s fiction in an American context; moment, it areas sleek American writers’ novels in a global context. Works mentioned comprise Rushdie’s The flooring underneath Her toes and Satanic Verses; Ellison’s Invisible Man and Juneteenth; and Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The scholarly fabrics diversity from U.S. immigration background and demanding race concept to modern reports of cultural and monetary globalization.
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