A Semiotic of Ethnicity

Download or read book A Semiotic of Ethnicity written by Anthony Julian Tamburri and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-09-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally considered "first-stage" or first-generation hyphenate writer now figures as an "expressive" writer who is not necessarily part of the immigrant or first American-born generations. He or she may actually belong to a later generation and write about his or her ethnicity with those characteristics more readily associated with the first-stage hyphenate writer.