The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for
conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US
multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized
discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates
the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of
representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study
offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary
texts for their investment in literary form. By means of
self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman
Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a
differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems
or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures
of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary
constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused
on Dave Eggers.
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