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American literature --- African American authors. --- English literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism.

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This book examines the rela­ti­onship between space, bilin­gua­lism, and writing, and female charac­ters’ iden­tity forma­tion in the late literary produc­tions of Iranian women in the Dias­pora, such as ›To See and See Again‹ by Tara Bahram­pour, ›Funny in Farsi‹ by Firoozeh Dumas, ›Lipstick Jihad‹ by Azadeh Moaveni, and ›Saffron Sky‹ by Gelareh Asayesh, hereby using post-colo­nial and post­mo­dern theo­ries of bilin­gua­lism, space, auto­bio­graphy and gender. Some years before and after the Islamic revo­lu­tion in Iran in 1979, a huge number of Iranians migrated to western coun­tries due to social and political prob­lems. There is a signi­fi­cant body of literary and auto­bio­gra­phical works by Iranian writers in the Dias­pora during the last 50 years. In the last two decades, more literary and auto­bio­gra­phical works have been concerned with the private aspect of the lives of the charac­ters in the Dias­pora and the (trans)forma­tion of their iden­tity and the lingu­istic and cultural hybri­dity. This hybri­dity and the iden­tity issues become more signi­fi­cant in the works of women writers, as they are doubly margi­na­lised as immi­grants in the host land and second sex within patri­archy. There have been only a few critical works on the recent literary and auto­bio­gra­phical works of Iranian female writers in the Dias­pora.

American literature --- Iranian American authors --- History and criticism.

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Race in literature. --- Literature --- American literature --- Black authors. --- African American authors --- History and criticism.

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Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance of English as the language of cultural capital, Jeehyun Lim examines the dual meaning of bilingualism as liability and asset in relation to anxieties surrounding “new” immigration and globalization.Using the work of Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Américo Paredes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, Chang-rae Lee, Julia Alvarez, and Ha Jin as examples, Lim reveals how bilingual personhood illustrates a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of one’s value crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference. By pointing to the nexus of race, capital, and language as the focal point of postwar negotiations of difference and inclusion, Bilingual Brokers probes the faultlines of postwar liberalism in conceptualizing and articulating who is and is not considered to be an American.

American literature --- Bilingualism --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Hispanic American authors --- History and criticism. --- Asian American authors --- History --- Asian American literature. --- Latino literature. --- bilingual personhood. --- flexible inclusion. --- language difference. --- multiculturalism. --- postwar liberalism.

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Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers by Flore Chevaillier examines the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today's most cutting-edge fiction writers. New relationships between literature, media culture, and hypertexts have added to modes of experimentation and reshaped the boundaries between literary and pop culture media; visual arts and literature; critical theory and fiction writing; and print and digital texts. This collection of interviews undertakes such experimentations through an intimate glance, allowing readers to learn about each writer's journey, as well as their aesthetic, political, and personal choices. Including interviews with R. M. Berry, Debra Di Blasi, Percival Everett, Thalia Field, Renee Gladman, Bhanu Kapil, Lance Olsen, Michael Martone, Carole Maso, Joseph McElroy, Christina Milletti, Alan Singer, and Steve Tomasula, Divergent Trajectories provides a framework that allows innovative authors to discuss in some depth their works, backgrounds, formal research, thematic preferences, genre treatment, aesthetic philosophies, dominant linguistic expressions, cultural trends, and the literary canon. Through an examination of these concepts, writers ask what "traditional" and "innovative" writing is, and most of all, what fiction is today.

American literature --- Mexican American literature (Spanish) --- Mexican American authors --- History and criticism. --- Chicano literature (Spanish) --- Spanish literature --- Authors, American.