Challenges of Diversity : Essays on America /

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"What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving...

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Main Author: Sollors, Werner (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
American literature.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Immigrants dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Ethnicite dans la litterature.
Multiculturalisme dans la litterature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Challenges of Diversity
  • Introduction
  • 1. Literature and Ethnicity
  • 2. National Identity and Ethnic Diversity
  • 3. Dedicated to a Proposition
  • 4. A Critique of Pure Pluralism
  • 5. The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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