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Minority language and literature : retrospective and perspective / edited by Dexter Fisher.

Fisher, Dexter. (Added Author). Modern Language Association of America. Commission on Minority Groups and the Study of Language and Literature. (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0873523504
  • Physical Description: 160 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Modern Language Association of America, c1977.

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General Note: Papers presented at a national symposium sponsored by the Commission on Minority Groups and the Study of Language and Literature of the Modern Language Association of America, and held in New York City in Nov. 1976.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction / Dexter Fisher -- Minority literature in the service of cultural pluralism / David Dorsey -- Black literature and the American literary mainstream / J. Lee Greene -- The promise of Chicano literature / Raymund A. Paredes -- The socio-political world of the Chicano : a comparative analysis of social scientific and literary perspectives / Rudolph O. de la Garza and Rowena Rivera -- We have met the enemy- and he is us / James Sledd -- Black dialect : a cultural schock / Stephen D. Chennault -- A basic writing program at an urban university / Blanche Skurnick -- Spanish language programs for hispanic minorities : current needs and priorities / Guadalupe Valdés Fallis -- The Navajo college-level-literacy program : a holistic approach to language development for the "outsider" / Randall Ackley -- Overcoming obstacles to curriculum change in foreign languages / Eunice Faber -- Contemporary Puerto Rican literature in translation / María Teresa Babín -- Promoting pluralism in the public schools / Jermaine D. Arendt -- Politcs of the outsider : black studies in the university, 1976 / Mary Helen Washington -- Oral culture and the literate mind / Walter J. Ong -- The concept of marginality in ethnopoetics / Michel Benamou.

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