Multiculturalism and the American Self
edited by Alfred Hornung
Hardback (Published)
(January 2000)
ISBN: 9783825305666
5.28 x 8.27 inches
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The articles of this volume, which derive from two symposia held under the auspices of the Erasmus cooperation among seven European universities, address issues of the inter- and intracultural relations of different ethnic groups in America from the colonial period to the present time. In addition to the intercultural contacts between European settlers and immigrants on the one hand and minority groups on the other hand, emphasis is also given to the intercultural relations within white American literature. The common thread in all of these multicultural productions is the formation of an American self. Treatments of encounters between white settlers and Native Americans in the colonial period are set next to analyses of the minority works ranging from the poetry of Phillis Wheatley in the early republic, to questions of gender in slave narratives, to the fictions of Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, and Chicana writers. The implicit, often unintentional, stirrings of multiculturalism are the subject of articles on Henry Adams, Henry James, Thomas Wolfe, and Paul Green. Finally, the volume includes discussions of multicultural stereotypes, which determine the construction of American selfhood, in such motion pictures as Pocahontas, Forrest Gump, and Malcolm X.
- Edited by Alfred Hornung
Other Titles in this Series
The American Revolution Remembered, 1830s to 1850s
Competing Images and Conflicting Narratives
Volume 186
Differenz und Gesellschaft
Ethnische Dramen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Israel Zangwills 'The Melting Pot' und Angelina Weld Grimkes 'Rachel'
Volume 154
The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period
Volume 78
Bodies and/as Technology
Counter-Discourses on Ethnicity and Globalization in the Works of Alejandro Morales, Larissa Lai and Nalo Hopkinson
Volume 211
Cultural Criticism in Woman’s Experimental Writing
The Poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Lyn Hejinian and Susan Howe
Volume 128
Faces of Fiction
Essays on American Literature and Culture from the Jacksonian Period to Postmodernity
Volume 92
Violence and Open Spaces
The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre
Volume 277
The Anticipation of Catastrophe
Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture
Volume 247
Jewish Organizations in Transatlantic Perspective
Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Politics in Germany and the United States
Volume 226
America and the Americans in Postwar British Fiction
An Imagological Study of Selected Novels
Volume 138
Mensch als Methode
Allgemeine Hermeneutik und partielle Demokratie: Friedrich Schleiermacher - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Frederick Douglass
Volume 272
National Dreams and Rude Awakenings
Essays on American Literature, from the Puritans to the Postmodern
Volume 194
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