A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Multiculturalism’s Cultural Revolution 1 1. Zora Neale Hurston, D’Arcy McNickle, and the Culture of Anthropology 21 2. Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the Literature of Sociology 60 3. Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and Desegregation 97 4. John Okada and the Sociology of Internment 128 5. Américo Paredes and the Folklore of the Border 158 6. Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and Cultural Nationalisms, 1965–1975 184 7. N. Scott Momaday: Blood and Identity 220 8. Ishmael Reed and the Search for Survivals 260 9. Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec Survivals 286 Conclusion: The Multicultural Complex and the Incoherence of Literary Multiculturalism 307 Notes 327 Bibliography 345 Index 363 vi CONTENTS ...