Werner Sollors

Challenges of Diversity

Essays on America

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Produktbeschreibung

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 163mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589329
• ISBN-10: 0813589320
• Artikelnr.: 47973053

Autorenporträt

WERNER SOLLORS is a research professor of English at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professor of global literature at New York University Abu Dhabi, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books including Beyond Ethnicity and Neither Black nor White yet Both.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 3
1 Literature and Ethnicity 19
2 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 67
3 Dedicated to a Proposition 95
4 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 121
5 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145
Notes 177
Acknowledgments 205
Index 207