Literature and ethnic discrimination / edited by Michael J. Meyer.

Includes bibliographical references.

Religious skirmishes : when the ethnic outsider cannot hear "the loudest voice" / Karen Surman Paley -- Sam, Walter Lee, and the powerless black male / Charles Trainor -- Willa Cather's America, a Nation of nations / S. Krishnamoorthy Aithal -- Speaking through silences : ethnicity in the writings of Italian/American women / Edvige Giunta -- Loss and growth of identity in Shimon Wincelberg's Resort 76 / Eric Sterling -- "Time and place have had their say" : literature and ethnic discrimination in Zora Neale Hurston's aesthetics / Ana Maria Fraile Marcos -- Rediscovering nation, resisting racial oppression : the aesthetics of "putting up" in U.S. third world writing / Tim Libretti -- What God has put asunder : the politics of ethnic barriers in Chukwuemeka Ike's Toads for supper and Isidore Okpewho's The Last duty / Obododimma Oha -- East/west paradigms of history and fiction : Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Sky Lee's Disappearing moon cafe / Eva Darias Beautell -- Women before hell's gate : survivors of the holocaust and their memories / Peter Erspamer -- From Nuyorican barrio literature to issues on Puerto Rican literature outside New York City : Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortiz Cofer / Rafael Ocasio -- Fetishized blackness : racial desire in contemporary Japanese narrative and culture / Nina Cornyetz.