Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions

by David Palumbo-Liu (editor)

PALUMBO-LIU, D., THE ETHNIC CANON. HISTORIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND INTERVENTIONS. MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 1995, vii 304 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

312 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1995

Reviews

[Ke · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wished I read all the referenced texts as to understand the book fully. Maybe selfishly, I found the article on Amy Tan to be the most interesting. I think it is even useful for the understanding of contemporary Asian American literature of Lisa See.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Colleen Lye's essay

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This edited collection is really useful in thinking about the debates that swirl around identity based literatures and how canonization might merely reproduce a system of hierarchy it was trying to resist against. I obviously focused on the essays by Lisa Lowe, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Colleen Lye, and E. San Juan, Jr., but there are a lot of big names in here.

[jacky · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the section titled "The Politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Raply Ellison's Invisible Man." This was for my American Ethnic Literature class in college were I wrote about the later work.