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1 online resource (vii, 215 pages) |
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text file |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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Multiculturalism in literature. |
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Immigrants in literature.
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Immigrants in literature. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sollors, Werner. Challenges of diversity. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017 9780813589336 (DLC) 2017016372 |
| ISBN |
9780813589350 electronic book |
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0813589355 electronic book |
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9780813589343 electronic book |
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0813589347 electronic book |
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9780813589336 hardcover |
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