TY - GEN T1 - Challenges of diversity : essays on America A1 - Sollors, Werner LA - English PP - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1000298049 AB - "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 understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one and the key role writing has played in that process. Challenges of Diversity contains stories of American myths of arrival (pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, slave ships at Jamestown, steerage passengers at Ellis Island), the powerful rhetoric of egalitarian promise in the Declaration of Independence and the heterogeneous ends to which it has been put, and the recurring tropes of multiculturalism over time (e pluribus unum, melting pot, cultural pluralism). Sollors suggests that although the transformation of this settler country into a polyethnic and self-consciously multicultural nation may appear as a story of great progress toward the fulfillment of egalitarian ideals, deepening economic inequality actually exacerbates the divisions among Americans today"-- OP - 215 CN - PS169.N35 S56 2017 SN - 9780813589350 SN - 0813589355 SN - 9780813589343 SN - 0813589347 SN - 0813589339 SN - 9780813589336 SN - 9780813589329 SN - 0813589320 KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - American literature : History and criticism. KW - Multiculturalism in literature. KW - Ethnicity in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - Immigrants in literature. KW - Multiculturalisme dans la littérature. KW - Ethnicité dans la littérature. KW - Race dans la littérature. KW - Immigrants dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : African American. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : General. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : African American Studies. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - HISTORY : United States : General. KW - American literature KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Multiculturalism in literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -