Leslie Antonette

The Rhetoric of Diversity and the Traditions of American Literary Study

Critical Multiculturalism in English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book begins with an historical overview of the development of the concept of multiculturalism as it has been implemented in the American university. The book defines American multiculturalism through a focus on the ways theories and practices of historical, non-critical, multiculturalism have been used in the discourse of academic English departments. The author maps the problematic relationship between radical theory and institutional practices, which impedes the development of a critical multiculturalism that engages both literary theory and pedagogy. This critical multicultural theory and practice work to reconsider the traditional value of difference. _

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780897895460
• ISBN-10: 0897895460
• Artikelnr.: 25588060

Autorenporträt

LESLIEE ANTONETTE is Assistant Professor of English, East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania./e

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Introduction Ethico-Political History and the Production of
a Non-Critical Multiculturalism Reconstructing Multiculturalism Critically
Critical Multicultural Readings of American Texts Critical Multicultural
Pedagogy Appendix Bibliography Index