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Multicultural Optimism or the Potential Joys of Otherness

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2009

Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku

Name of source: Moravian Journal of Literature and Film

Publisher name: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Place: Olomouc

Page from-to: 23-33

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	Multikulturní optimismus aneb skryté radosti jinakosti	Příspěvek analyzuje proměňující se diskurz o etnicitě a jinakosti na příkladu dvou amerických románů z 90. let - The Crown of Columbus a Mona in the Promised Land.	rasa, etnicita, humor, přijímání jinakosti
eng	Multicultural Optimism or the Potential Joys of Otherness	The essay focuses on the literary reflection of the changing discourse on ethnicity and race in the second half of the twentieth century. It analyzes two novels of the 1990s that address the issue of ethnic identity from a humorous point of view. In both Gish Jen?s Mona in the Promised Land (1996) and Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich?s co-authored novel The Crown of Columbus (1991) ethnic identity is no longer a tragic burden but a mask to be used or discarded, explored, embraced, or modified. Both novels are delightful and hilarious ways of addressing and challenging serious personal, ethnic, cultural and historical issues and thus they well document the paradigmatic shift in the acceptance of ethnicity and the re-interpretations of centrality and marginality in American culture.	race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, acceptance of otherness, humor

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