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These essays chart the cultural constraints of `ethnicity' in American history and culture. Sollors' introductory essay sets the framework for the discussion of ethnicity and the individual essays cover a wide range of topics: Native American, Latin-American, historical Jewish, nineteenth-century American German, American Jewish, Italian, and Afro-American.
American literature --- Thematology --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- Minorities in literature --- Minorities --- Minorities as a theme in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Minority authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism. --- Minorities - United States - Intellectual life. --- Ethnic groups im literature.
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In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) --- Denazification. --- Social psychology --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Social psychology. --- War and literature. --- War and motion pictures. --- Besetzung --- Entnazifizierung --- Denazifiering --- Socialpsykologi. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i konsten. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i litteraturen. --- Film och krig. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 --- Influence. --- Art and the war --- Literature and the war. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- historia. --- influenser. --- Reconstruction (1939-1951). --- World War (1939-1945). --- 1939-1951. --- Geschichte 1945-1948. --- Germany. --- Deutschland --- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany. --- Social psychology -- Germany. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence. --- Denazification --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Influence --- Literature and the war --- Motion pictures and the war --- Besetzung. --- Entnazifizierung. --- Art and the war. --- Deutschland. --- World War, 1939-1945, in art --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Influenser. --- Historia.
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Interracialism has formed, torn apart, defined and divided the American nation since its earliest history. This volume explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in American racial identity.
Interracial marriage --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Miscegenation --- Racially mixed people in literature. --- Racially mixed people --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Miscegenation in literature --- Racially mixed people in literature --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Mulattoes in literature --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Race relations --- Intermarriage --- Law and legislation&delete& --- History --- Race relations in literature. --- Law and legislation. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question
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Annotation. Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis. Discussing works from every period of American history, Sollors focuses particularly on the tension between "descent" and "consent"--Between the concern for one's racial, ethnic, and familial heritage and the conflicting desire to choose one's own destiny, even if that choice goes against one's heritage. Some of the stories Sollors examines are retellings of the biblical Exodus--stories in which Americans of the most diverse origins have painted their own histories as an escape from bondage or a search for a new Canaan. Other stories are "American-made" tales of melting-pot romance, which may either triumph in intermarriage, accompanied by new world symphonies, or end with the lovers' death. Still other stories concern voyages of self-discovery in which the hero attempts to steer a perilous course between stubborn traditionalism and total assimilation. And then there are the generational sagas, in which, as if by magic, the third generation emerges as the fulfillment of their forebears' dream. Citing examples that range from the writings of Cotton Mather to Liquid Sky (a "post-punk" science fiction film directed by a Russian emigre), Sollors shows how the creators of American culture have generally been attracted to what is most new and modern. A provocative and original look at "ethnicity" in American literature & middot;Covers stories from all periods of our nation's history & middot;Relates ethnic literature to the principle of literary modernism & middot;"Grave and hilarious, tender and merciless ... The book performs a public service."-Quentin Anderson.
American literature --- History and criticism. --- AMERICAN LITERATURE --- AMERICAN CIVILIZATION --- MINORITIES --- INDIAN --- CIVILISATION --- ETATS-UNIS --- ETHNOLOGIE --- CULTURE --- SOCIETE --- HISTORY --- INDIANS
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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.
HISTORY / United States / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- American literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- History and criticism.
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America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, this book brings together the nation's many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what "Made in America" means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric--cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.
American literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Thèmes, motifs --- États-Unis --- Dans la littérature --- #KVHA:American Studies --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Verenigde Staten --- Amerikaanse letterkunde --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- Verenigde Staten --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Verenigde Staten. --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism --- Civilization --- Histoire et critique. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans la littérature. --- Geschiedenis en kritiek.
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"Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm-changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of "race melodrama" through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Fergusons final work is brought together here in Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Ferguson asks, what would thinking about "race relations" be like if George Schuylers relentless questioning was heeded? How could the "bifurcating effects" of racial melodrama, the common, popular, and well-intentioned forms of sentimental heroicization and victimization be avoided in literary and in scholarly narratives? Ferguson goes deeper than any other literary and cultural critic in teasing out the ironies that have surrounded notions of race and racial cultural production in America. One further irony is that in order to highlight some of the current blind spots, he draws on classic American studies concepts and texts, including Ralph Waldo Emersons distinction between the party of memory and the party of hope, Alexis de Tocquevilles notions of American democracy and the races of America, Lionel Trillings distinction between sincerity and authenticity, and Edmund Morgans demonstration of the interconnectedness of American slavery and freedom. Elegant, memorable, and aphoristically written, these essays convey to the reader Fergusons sense of humor, warmth, and grace, while they add up to a serious and principled critique of much common scholarly and pedagogic practice"--
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In a 1932 article for the journal Opportunity, Charles Hamlin Good acknowledged an earlier “golden age” of African American literature. At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Good reminded his readers of the writing produced by ante-bellum New Orleans’s Creoles of color. He argued that these writers “deserve more than passing notice for the work they did. In the dark ages of slavery their work foreshadowed the Negro cultural revival of today.” (Good, 79.)
History --- Literature American --- littérature --- Africains Américains --- histoire --- literature --- African American --- history
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