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Romance of Authenticity : The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures by Frederick J. Karem (2004, Hardcover)
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press. Number of Pages: 256. Weight: 1.01 lbs. Publication Date: 2004-02-19. ISBN13: 9780813922546.
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PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-100813922542
ISBN-139780813922546
eBay Product ID (ePID)30258418
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRomance of Authenticity : the Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
SubjectAnthropology / Cultural & Social, American / General
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorFrederick J. Karem
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-014895
ReviewsWith considerable literary and historical scope and with original archival research, The Romance of Authenticity is a valuable contribution to current scholarly debates regarding U.S. regionalism, multicultural literature, and reception studies. Karem challenges liberal multiculturalism for an 'inclusiveness' that often depends on narrow 'representativeness' that the ethnic author explicitly rejects, and is particularly effective in showing how such representativeness often depends on misreadings of ethnic authors' intentions.|9780813922546|
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal810.9/32
SynopsisTo what extent has the growing popular demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fueled the expectation that the most important task for regional and ethnic writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material to their readers? In The Romance of Authenticity, Jeff Karem argues that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions that authenticity should be prized as a goal of regional and ethnic literatures, it is in fact a dangerously restrictive category of literary judgment. He draws on a large body of archival evidence to show how intense political and economic interests have determined what literary representations are deemed authentic, not only constraining what such writers can publish but also limiting the ways in which their works are interpreted. The author specifically discusses the work of William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Ernest Gaines, Rolando Hinojosa, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Exploring these writers? different responses to the expectation that they act as cultural representatives of the Southern, Southwestern, African American, Latino, or Native American experience, Karem finds that some refuse that role and others embrace it. The Romance of Authenticity concludes that despite the celebration of hybridity in contemporary theories of identity, the politics of cultural authenticity in publishing and criticism produce precisely the opposite effect, reducing regional and ethnic writers to exotic objects of desire., To what extent has the growing popular demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fueled the expectation that the most important task for regional and ethnic writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material to their readers? In The Romance of Authenticity, Jeff Karem argues that, in contrast to prevailing assumptions that authenticity should be prized as a goal of regional and ethnic literatures, it is in fact a dangerously restrictive category of literary judgment. He draws on a large body of archival evidence to show how intense political and economic interests have determined what literary representations are deemed authentic, not only constraining what such writers can publish but also limiting the ways in which their works are interpreted. The author specifically discusses the work of William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Ernest Gaines, Rolando Hinojosa, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Exploring these writers' different responses to the expectation that they act as cultural representatives of the Southern, Southwestern, African American, Latino, or Native American experience, Karem finds that some refuse that role and others embrace it. The Romance of Authenticity concludes that despite the celebration of hybridity in contemporary theories of identity, the politics of cultural authenticity in publishing and criticism produce precisely the opposite effect, reducing regional and ethnic writers to exotic objects of desire., To what extent has the demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fuelled the expectation that the most important task for writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material? This text argues that authenticity is in fact a restrictive category of literary judgment.
LC Classification NumberPS228.R4K37 2004
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