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Beyond ethnicity : consent and descent in American culture / Werner Sollors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sollors, Werner.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Foreign authors--History and criticism.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Ethnology--United States.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Beyond Ethnicity; 2. Typology and Ethnogenesis; 3. Melting Pots; 4. Romantic Love, Arranged Marriage, and Indian Melancholy; Interlude: From Indian to Urban; 5. Some Tales of Consent and Descent; 6. The Ethics of Wholesome Provincialism; 7. First Generation, Second Generation, Third Generation . . . : The Cultural Construction of Descent; 8. Ethnicity and Literary Form; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliography: p. 265-281 and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-44017-1
- 0-19-802072-4
- OCLC:
- 476006390
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