Beyond Ethnicity Consent and Descent in American Culture

Name: Beyond Ethnicity Consent and Descent in American Culture
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ISBN: 9780195051933

ISBN-10: 0195051939

ISBN-13: 9780195051933

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Authors: Werner Sollors

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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' - 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…

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List price: $75.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.18" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.



Acknowledgments and Prefatory Remarks


Introduction



Beyond Ethnicity



Typology and Ethnogenesis



Melting Pots



Romantic Love, Arranged Marriage, and Indian Melancholy


Conclusion


Interlude from Indian to Urban



Some Tales of Consent and Descent



the Ethics of Wholesome Provincialism



First Generation, Second Generation, Third Generation . . .: the Cultural Construction of Descent



Ethnicity and Literary Form


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index