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Cushman, Susan Elizabeth.

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The politics of storytelling: Cultural memory and national identity in United States postmodern fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics of storytelling: Cultural memory and national identity in United States postmodern fiction./
Author:	Cushman, Susan Elizabeth.
Description:	217 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elizabeth Fifer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3073954
ISBN:	9780493936871

The politics of storytelling: Cultural memory and national identity in United States postmodern fiction.
Cushman, Susan Elizabeth.

The politics of storytelling: Cultural memory and national identity in United States postmodern fiction. - 217 p.

Adviser: Elizabeth Fifer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2003.

This study examines a new hybrid genre of autobiographical fiction, occasionally termed "postmodern fiction" or "resistance literature," which challenges the conventional narrative paradigm of unified national identity. While memoirs of the early Republic traced a life story from birth to death, postmodern autobiography explores "counter-hegemonic narratives: ideographic selfhood, ethnography, and collective storytelling" (Sidonie Smith xxi). Prior to the twentieth century, the narratives that received critical attention featured an exemplary life---one that reaffirmed "a comprehensive national ideal" (Bercovitch 186), and only recently has the genre expanded to include narratives by women or non-Anglo ethnic groups. Since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s reinstated legal and political rights to Black Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans have reasserted their cultural identity by writing non-assimilative or community-oriented autobiographical fiction. In this study, each writer reconciles the communal values she learned in her native land with the individualistic values at the core of American democracy. In Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976), Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/ La Frontera (1987), and Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller (1987), the writers use non-conventional narrative techniques to reposition their identity(s) in a postmodern context. To give readers new ways of learning American history and identity, they privilege community as an integral part of self-definition.

ISBN: 9780493936871Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

The politics of storytelling: Cultural memory and national identity in United States postmodern fiction.
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