Ethnic Narratives Research Articles

From IRCA to Orca: Apprehending the Other in ‘Your San Antonio Experience’

Abstract From the Alamo to Sea World, the San Antonio tourist experience reiterates an historical and ethnic narrative that positions the Anglo‐American subject in relation to the Mexican as ‘other’. Like the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, this strategy of definition and containment is inseparable from profound ambivalences about the possibility of effectively ‘naturalizing’ difference. In ‘remembering the Alamo’, the tourist is faced with the possibility of dis‐integration and an inversion of the colonizer/colonized relationship.

Literary Anthropology: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to People, Signs and Literature

1. Introduction 2. Part I. Signs, Culture, and Literature: Toward a Theory of Literary Anthropology 3. 1. Literary anthropology: toward a new interdisciplinary area 4. 2. Literature as a source for anthropological research: the case of Jaroslav Hasek's Good soldier Svejk (by Winner, Thomas G.) 5. 3. La theorie culturelle et les etudes litteraires: poetique et anthropologie litteraire (by Sarkany, Stephane) 6. Part II. National Narratives and Ethnic Narratives 7. 4. Davy Crockett and Mike Fink: An interpretation of cultural continuity and change (by Botscharow, Lucy Jayne) 8. 5. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, and north German social class: an application of literary anthropology (by Erickson, Vincent O.) 9. 6. Ethnic culture texts as narration (by Portis-Winner, Irene) 10. 7. Myth and Brazilian literature (by Zilberman, Regina) 11. 8. The recovered fragments: archeological and anthropological perspectives in Edith Wharton's The age of innocence (by Trumpener, Katie) 12. Part III. Literary Anthropology of Three Rural Worlds 13. 9. The Bible and the Hungarian peasant tradition (by Lammel, Annamaria) 14. 10. The social construction of past, present and future in the written and oral texts of the Old Order Amish: an ethnosemiotic approach to social belief (by Enninger, Werner) 15. 11. Transylvanian people and Transylvanian literature: an attempt at the literary-anthropological analysis of Tamasi Aron's, Pavel Dan's and Erwin Wittstock's Short Stories (by David, Gyula) 16. Part IV. Two Genre Approaches to Literary Anthropology 17. 12. Avant-garde autobiography: deconstructing the modernist habitat (by Boelhower, William) 18. 13. The anthropology in/of fiction: novels about voyages (by Loriggio, Francesco) 19. 14. Symposium on Literary Anthropology - transcript of the closing discussion 20. List of contributors 21. Name index 22. Subject index