"Multiculturalism in literature." . . "San Francisco Bay (Region)" . . "Beatgeneration." . . "Literatur." . . "Literatur" . "San Francisco, Baie de (Calif.)" . . "San Francisco Bay Area." . . "American literature." . . "Intellectual life." . . "San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)" . . "American literature History and criticism California." . . "American literature History and criticism California San Francisco Bay Area." . . "Multikulturelle Gesellschaft." . . "Multikulturelle Gesellschaft" . "San Francisco Bay" . . "Beat generation." . . "Literature." . . "Geschichte 1955-1979" . . "California" . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General" . . . . "Electronic books" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "A survey of multicultural San Francisco Bay literature, 1955-1979 : Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat generation" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . . . . . . "This work examines how writers in the San Francisco Bay Area worked to develop a multiculturalist American literature. This study counteracts popular narratives of multiculturalism's boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s by showing that a large group of culturally eclectic writers in the Bay Area were re-envisioning American identity through a multiculturalist looking glass many years earlier." . . . . . . "A survey of multicultural San Francisco Bay literature, 1955-1979 Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and the Beat generation" . . . .