PHENOMENON OF US ETHNIC LITERATURES

The article deals with the phenomenon of ethnic literatures of the United States, the conditions of their emergence, development and current state of the connection with multiculturalism; Special attention is paid to the trends of Asian-American (Sino-American) literature with its characteristic range of problems and poetic originality: ethnos history and culture, problems of assimilation of immigrants, preservation of national identity and culture, linguistic and cultural identity, hybridization of modern consciousness, overcoming the marginality of ethnic