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Author Sollors, Werner

Title Challenges of Diversity : Essays on America
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents 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
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Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
History -- General.-bisacsh -- United States
Immigrants in literature.
Criticism -- American -- African American.-bisacsh
Criticism -- American -- General.-bisacsh
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
HISTORY / United States / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
American literature
Ethnicity in literature
Immigrants in literature
Multiculturalism in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Race in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813589350
0813589355