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Author Sollors, Werner, author.

Title Challenges of diversity : essays on America / Werner Sollors.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 30, 2018).
Subject National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Ethnicity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00916067
Immigrants in literature. (OCoLC)fst00967800
Multiculturalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01028865
National characteristics, American, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033350
Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Sollors, Werner. Challenges of diversity. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017 9780813589336 (DLC) 2017016372
ISBN 9780813589350 electronic book
0813589355 electronic book
9780813589343 electronic book
0813589347 electronic book
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