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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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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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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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