All My Relatives: Community in Contemporary Ethnic American Literatures

by Bonnie Tusmith

Book Overview

All My Relatives challenges the prevailing notion that the work of all American writers reflects a sense of determined individualism. Highlighting works by Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, N. Scott Momaday, Tomas Rivera, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker, and John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith shows that a "first language of community" exists within the cultures of ethnic Americans and is evident in their literary texts. TuSmith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047208285X
• ISBN13: 9780472082858
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"