Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture
Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture
Oxford University Press | October 29, 1987 | ISBN-10: 0195051939 | 320 pages | PDF | 17.7 MB
Oxford University Press | October 29, 1987 | ISBN-10: 0195051939 | 320 pages | PDF | 17.7 MB
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.