1st Edition
Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner
By Randy Boyagoda
Copyright 2008
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influence and sympathy that Rushdie’s statement implied, this book seeks to understand connections between American and global experience as discernible in twentieth-century fiction. The worldwide imprint of modern American... Read more
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Imagining Nation and Imaginary Americans Chapter Two: Salman Rushdie’s American Idyll Chapter Three: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Immigrants Chapter Four: William Faulkner’s Durn Furriners Chapter Five: Americans You’ll Never (Have To) Be Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Scholar, critic and novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of American Literature at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is the author of Governor of the Northern Province, a novel, and contributes literary and cultural criticism to a series of North American publications, including Harper’s and The Walrus.
