Beyond Ethnicity

Titel: Beyond Ethnicity

Schrijver: Werner Sollors

Bindingswijze: Paperback

EAN: 9780195051933

Conditie: Redelijk

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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.



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' - between the concern for one's racial, ethnic, and familial heritage and the conflicting desire to choose one's own destiny, even if such choices go against one's heritage. The study ranges from Puritan autobiographies to those of 20th-century Afro-Americans and immigrants, from Royall Tyler and the first American plays to Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein, from the writings of Cotton Mather to Liquid Sky (a 'post-punk' science-fiction film by a Russian emigré). The author shows how the diverse creators of American culture have generally been attracted to what is most new and modern.