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Challenges of diversity : essays on America
- Title
- Challenges of diversity : essays on America / Werner Sollors.
- Author
- Sollors, Werner
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- vii, 215 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Ethnicity in literature
- Multiculturalism in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- Immigrants in literature
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- HISTORY / United States / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Race in literature
- American literature > History and criticism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-10635
- ISBN
- 9780813589336
- 0813589339
- 9780813589329
- 0813589320
- LCCN
- 2017016372
- OCLC
- 978600272
- Author
- Sollors, Werner, author.
- Title
- Challenges of diversity : essays on America / Werner Sollors.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-10635