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Professor's book examines narratives across cultures
GUS HUNNINGHAKE
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associate professor Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta's recently-released book examines cultural history from a perspective not usually seen in modern literature.
Tosta, an associate professor of Brazilian literature and culture, said that his background and his upbringing played a major role inspiring him to write the book — "Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas" — about history and its varying viewpoints.
"My experiences as an immigrant, as someone who arrived here 19 years ago, who had to see himself differently racially and ethnically, are what drew me to study literature that was related to immigration and the presentation of immigrants," Tosta said. "That's how it first started."
My experiences as an immigrant, as someone who arrived here 19 years ago,who had to see himself differently racially and ethnically, are what drew me to study literature that was related to immigration."
Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta Associate Professor
"Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas," according to a University press release, takes Native American, African-American and Jewish-American and Japanese-American novels and compares them with a novel from Brazil, Tosta's native country.
Tosta said that his English studies as an undergraduate student fueled his desire to learn more about history from different cultures.
"I actually studied more U.S. literature back in Brazil than I studied Brazilian literature," Tosta said. "So my background was much stronger in English literature."
While studying English, Tosta found a connection between fiction and history and began to question how fiction can represent or be a part of history.
"How is it that the fiction in some literature represents the history?" Tosta asked. "There were these groups of novels that were representing history in a similar way, beginning with colonization, then the arrival of the European explorer."
Tosta said that his findings inspired him to examine historical novels from different ethnic backgrounds that took a critical standpoint in their depiction of certain major events.
"These are post-colonial novels that are looking at the history of colonization, and they are critical of that history and how that history affects us today," Tosta said.
Edited by Casey Brown
CONFLUENCE NARRATIVES
ETHNICITY, HISTORY, AND NATION-MAKING IN THE AMERICAS
ANTONIO LUCIANO DE ANDRADE TOSTA
The cover of associate professor of Brazilian literature and culture Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta's recently-released book, "Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History and Nation-Making in the Americas."
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