Challenges of Diversity : : Essays on America / / Werner Sollors.
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 unders...
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Sollors, Werner, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Challenges of Diversity : Essays on America / Werner Sollors. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (214 p.) : 4 color illustrations, 1 figur text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one and the key role writing has played in that process. Challenges of Diversity contains stories of American myths of arrival (pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, slave ships at Jamestown, steerage passengers at Ellis Island), the powerful rhetoric of egalitarian promise in the Declaration of Independence and the heterogeneous ends to which it has been put, and the recurring tropes of multiculturalism over time (e pluribus unum, melting pot, cultural pluralism). Sollors suggests that although the transformation of this settler country into a polyethnic and self-consciously multicultural nation may appear as a story of great progress toward the fulfillment of egalitarian ideals, deepening economic inequality actually exacerbates the divisions among Americans today. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jan 2021) American literature History and criticism. Criticism American African American.-bisacsh. Criticism American General.-bisacsh. Ethnicity in literature. History General.-bisacsh United States. Immigrants in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Race in literature. Social sciences Discrimination and Race Relations.-bisacsh. Social sciences Ethnic Studies African American Studies.-bisacsh. Social sciences Ethnic Studies General.-bisacsh. american culture. anglo-american. diversity. egalitarian. ellis island. jamestown. multicultural. pilgrims. polyethnic. unity. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017 9783110666090 print 9780813589336 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813589350?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813589350 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813589350.jpg |
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