Intro; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author
Summary
What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process