Ethnic Americans from African America, Jewish American, and Native American backgrounds who attempt to merge with mainstream America face the very obvious problems of historically entrenched racism and anti-Semitism. Three modern American writers, Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Toni Morrison, have chosen a form of narrative that balances a longing for inclusion with a deep-seated anger toward the larger white or, in Roth's case, gentile social structure.
This study of six of Silko, Morrison and Roth's longer works focuses on their use of a survival narrative motif as a way of clarifying their ethnic positioning.
| ISBN: | 9780820439495 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 1999 |
| Author: | Naomi R Rand |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 118 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
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Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Ethnic Americans from African America, Jewish American, and Native American backgrounds who attempt to merge with mainstream America face the very obvious problems of historically entrenched racism and anti-Semitism. Three modern American writers, Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Toni Morrison, have chosen a form of narrative that balances a longing for inclusion with a deep-seated anger toward the larger white or, in Roth's case, gentile social structure.
Silko, Morrison, and Roth features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Silko, Morrison, and Roth was written by Naomi R Rand and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Silko, Morrison, and Roth has 118 pages
Yes it is part of Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature series