Ethnic Resonances in Performance Literature and Identity

<p>This volume seeks to weave applications of the dynamic concept of resonance to ethnic studies. Resonance refers to the ever broadening multidirectional effects of movement or action a concept significant for many disciplines. The individual chapters exchange the concept of static intertextuality for that of interactive resonance which encourages consideration of the mutual and processual influences among readings paradigms and social engagement in cultural analysis. International scholars of literary and cultural studies linguistics history politics or ethno-environmental studies contribute their work in this volume. Each chapter examines a specific ethnic phenomenon in terms of relevant literature lived experience and theoretical approaches or historical intervention relating the given case study to parameters of resonance. The book offers dialogic transnational interchange a play of eclectic ethnic voices inquiries perspectives and differences. The studies in this interdisciplinary volume show that – through resonant engagement with(in) and between works – literary production can both enhance and disturb cultural narratives of ethnicity.</p>