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Beyond Ethnicity
Consent and Descent in American Culture
E-bok, 1987
865 kr
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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 …
The Invention of Ethnicity
Häftad, 1991
1422 kr
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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 …
Beyond Ethnicity
Consent and Descent in American Culture
Häftad, 1988
1324 kr
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This book looks at the role of 'ethnicity' in American literature and what that literature has said - and continues to say - about the diverse American culture. Discussing works from every period of American history, Sollors focuses particularly on the tension between 'descent' and 'consent' - …
Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
Inbunden, 1997
1261 kr
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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making …
Interracialism
Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law
Inbunden, 2000
1914 kr
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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, 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. Ranging from Hannah …
Interracialism
Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law
Häftad, 2000
935 kr
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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, 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. Ranging from Hannah …
Beyond Ethnicity
Consent and Descent in American Culture
E-bok, 1987
865 kr
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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 …
Invention of Ethnicity
E-bok, 1991
886 kr
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This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger …
Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
E-bok, 1997
780 kr
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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making …
Interracialism
Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law
E-bok, 2000
359 kr
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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to …
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
Av W. E. B. Du Bois, Werner Sollors m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
448 kr
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's …
Marrow of Tradition
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Charles W. Chesnutt, Werner Sollors
Häftad, 2012, 15+ år
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
251 kr
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Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt’s own family, Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition captures the astonishing moment in American history when a violent coup d’état resulted in the subversion of a free and democratic election.The Norton Critical …
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Olaudah Equiano, Werner Sollors
Häftad, 2000
216 kr
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It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works …
Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves
Expanded Edition
Av Werner Sollors, Hamilton Holt
Häftad, 1999
676 kr
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Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of …
Ethnic Modernism
Häftad, 2008
362 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. At the same time, technologies of dissemination evolved rapidly, and versions of modernism emerged as dominant art forms. How did African American, European immigrant, …
Temptation of Despair
Tales of the 1940s
Inbunden, 2014
431 kr
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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 …
New Literary History of America
Av Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
Häftad, 2012
400 kr
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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 …
Neither Black nor White yet Both
Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
Häftad, 1999
377 kr
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Why can a “white” woman give birth to a “black” baby, while a “black” woman can never give birth to a “white” baby in the United States? What makes racial “passing” so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making …
Return of Thematic Criticism
Häftad, 1993
337 kr
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In the glory days of high modernist formalism it was anathema to speak about the content of a work of art. Those days are gone, and critical practice now is largely thematic practice. A focus on the themes of literature informs feminist, new historicist, ethnic, and even second-generation …
Challenges of Diversity
Essays on America
Häftad, 2017
493 kr
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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 …
Blacks at Harvard
A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe
Av Randall Kennedy, Werner Sollors m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1002 kr
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The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various …
Blacks at Harvard
A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe
Av Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
514 kr
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The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various …
Theories of Ethnicity
A Classical Reader
Av Werner Sollors, Werner Sollors
Inbunden, 1996
1526 kr
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From the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia to debates over multiculturalism, ethnicity has, once again, become a global preoccupation. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of ethnicity? And when and how did ethnicity become such an important area of cultural expression and identification …
Multilingual America
Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature
Häftad, 1998
493 kr
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Aside from the occasional controversy over "Official English" campaigns, language remains the blind spot in the debate over multiculturalism. Considering its status as a nation of non-English speaking aborigines and of immigrants with many languages, America exhibits a curious tunnel vision about …
Anthology of Interracial Literature
Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New
Av Susannah Ural, Werner Sollors
Inbunden, 2004
1168 kr
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A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave change places for a single night. An interracial marriage turns …
Anthology of Interracial Literature
Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New
Häftad, 2004
526 kr
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A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave change places for a single night. An interracial marriage turns …
Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations
Inbunden, 2000
1168 kr
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An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream transcripts, in German. A short story about the politics of abortion in …
Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations
Häftad, 2000
493 kr
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An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream transcripts, in German. A short story about the politics of abortion in …
Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves
Expanded Edition
Av Hamilton Holt, Werner Sollors
E-bok, 2012
729 kr
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Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent , collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of …
Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves
Expanded Edition
Av Hamilton Holt, Werner Sollors
E-bok, 2012
745 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent , collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of …
