Research Catalog

Title

Multiculturalism and the canon of American culture / edited by Hans Bak ; with contributions from Hans Bak ... [et al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bak, Hans
• Netherlands American Studies Association.

Description

xx, 374 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 23

Uniform Title

European contributions to American studies 23.

Subject

• Multiculturalism > United States
• United States > Ethnic relations > Congresses
• United States > Race relations > Congresses
• North America > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Canada > Ethnic relations > Congresses
• Canada > Race relations > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Multiculturalism and the tradition of Western self-criticism / Klaas van Berkel -- Multiculturalism and university lore / Richard P. Horwitz -- Multicultural critique and the new American studies / Gunter H. Lenz -- The challenge to American literary history today / Heide Ziegler -- The Heath is on: canon or kaleidoscope? / Hans Bak -- Acts of remembrance: America as multicultural past in Ralph Ellison, Nicholasa Mohr, James Welch and Monica Sone / A. Robert Lee -- Multiculturalism, Native Americans, and the "American scene" / Arnold Krupat -- Gerald Vizenor: negotiations of difference and value / Hartwig Isernhagen -- The Asian-American experience: the view from the 1990s / Roger Daniels -- "The great power of my mother talking-story": ethnicity and identity in the work of Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston / Babs Boter.
• "Chi lai, arriba, rise up!": some remarks on ethnic writing in New York City / Mario Maffi -- Multiculturalism and the color line: African Caribbeans in New York City / Remco van Capelleveen -- Signifying difference: Alice Walker's Black feminine aesthetics / Clara Juncker -- PC, or Do the right thing / Berndt Ostendorf -- American-Jewish narrative and the multicultural society: then and now / Gert Buelens -- Ethnicity, race and religion in Chicago: some literary considerations / August J. Fry -- The melting pot and the vertical mosaic: some considerations on cultural pluralism and national culture in the United States and Canada / F.L. van Holthoon -- On being a Canadian writer today / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- "Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island": or, ethnic literature and some redefinitions of "America" / Werner Sollors.
• The political consequences of multiculturalism in the U.S. / Berndt Ostendorf -- Native-American literatures / Arnold Krupat -- Asian Americans: a selected bibliography / Roger Daniels -- Asian-American writing: a handlist / Pat M. Ryan, in collaboration with Babs Boter -- Chicano/a authors: a selected bibliography / Mario Maffi -- Nuyorican authors: a selected bibliography / Mario Maffi -- African-American women's studies / Clara Juncker -- Essays on ethnicity: a personal sampler / Werner Sollors.

ISBN

9053830189

OCLC

• 29603078
• SCSB-12340021

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library