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04321aam a2200505 i 4500 001 000A61625F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 201214s2021 iaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020043381 020 $a 1609387627 020 $a 9781609387624 035 $a (OCoLC)1227029382 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS153.M56 $b M55 2021 100 1 $a Milne, Leah A. $q (Leah Abuan), $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Novel subjects : $b authorship as radical self-care in multiethnic American narratives / $c Leah A. Milne. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 250 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a The new American canon: the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture 520 $a "How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal? In Necessary Fictions, Leah Milne offers a new and original way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in the contemporary works of authors of marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care-a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and "an act of political warfare." In engaging in this battle, the works discussed in this study confront limitations on ethnicity and nationality wrought by the institutionalization of multiculturalism. They also focus on identities whose mere presence on the cultural landscape is often perceived as vindictive or willful. Analyzing recent texts by Carmen Maria Machado, Louise Erdrich, Ruth Ozeki, Toni Morrison, and more, Milne connects works across cultures and nationalities in search of reasons for this recent trend of depicting writers as characters in multicultural texts. Her exploration uncovers fiction and memoir that embrace unacceptable or marginalized modes of storytelling-such as plagiarism, historical revisions, jokes, and lies-as well as inauthentic, invisible, and unexceptional subjects. These works ultimately reveal a shared goal of expanding the borders of belonging in ethnic and cultural groups, and thus add to the ever-evolving conversations surrounding both multicultural literature and self-care"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Vindictively American -- Novel subjects and objectionable authorship : Gina Apostol and Louise Erdrich -- Against "authenticity" : writing the self and the other : Carmen Maria Machado and Jonathan Safran Foer -- Material metafiction and the life-changing magic of all myriad things : Nicole Krauss and Ruth Ozeki -- "A blank page rises up" : willful authors in Percival Everett's Percival Everett by Virgil Russell and Miguel Syjuco's Ilustrado -- Epilogue: Releasing doubles into the world... 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Technique. 650 0 $a Authors in literature. 650 0 $a Group identity in literature. 650 0 $a Multiculturalism in literature. 650 0 $a Ethnicity in literature. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a American fiction $x Minority authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807087 650 7 $a Authors in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821747 650 7 $a Ethnicity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916067 650 7 $a Fiction $x Technique. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923755 650 7 $a Group identity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00948452 650 7 $a Multiculturalism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01028865 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a New American canon. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023309.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=000A61625F0811ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search