Beyond Ethnicity: Consent & Descent in American Culture

by Werner Sollors

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051939
• ISBN13: 9780195051933
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"