A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism

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Acknowledgments I began this book at Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina, and finished it at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. I would like to thank colleagues at both institutions for their invaluable suggestions and encouragement, especially William Aarnes, Stanley Crowe, Vincent Hausmann, Nicholas Radel, William Rogers, Brian Siegel, and Robin Visel at Furman, and Gary Kuchar, Robert Miles, Stephen Ross, Cheryl Suzack, and Richard Van Oort at Victoria. I am also grateful to Linda Hutcheon, Daphne Lamothe, Walter Benn Michaels, Samina Najmi, David Palumbo-Liu,Glenn Willmott,and Zhou Xiaojing for critical readings and support. I thank Wafa Buhaisi, Karen Guth, Megan Prewitt, and Meg Stroup, who worked as undergraduate research assistants at Furman University in support of an early version of this project, and especially my graduate research assistant at the University of Victoria,Madeline Walker,for her assistance and editorial work in its late stage. I would like to thank my students at Furman and Victoria for thinking with me through these texts and issues. For permission to reproduce my article “Reading Ethnography:The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education,” originally appearing in Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature, I thank the University of Washington Press. For permission to reproduce my article “What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race, Identity,” I thank American Literature, where it first appeared. I thank the University of Notre Dame Library for reproducing the image from McGee’s Illustrated Weekly that appears on page 232. This project was begun with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and it was completed with the help of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. I am grateful to both agencies for their assistance. I wish to thank,finally,Lynnette,my constant source of intellectual insight and moral support,and Nathalie and Kaela for their patience and good humor. This book is for them, but for Nathalie especially, who is (almost) as old as this project. This page intentionally left blank.
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