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Beyond ethnicity : consent and descent in American culture /

Argues that Americans have more in common with each other than with their ethnic ancestors.

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Main Author: Sollors, Werner.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
Subjects and Genres:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Foreign authors > History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnology > United States.
Literatura americana > Autores extranjeros > Historia y crítica.
Grupos étnicos en la literatura.
Etnicidad en la literature.
Etnología > EE. UU.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs étrangers > Histoire et critique.
Ethnologie > États-Unis.
Groupes ethniques dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
American literature > Foreign authors.
American literature > Minority authors.
Ethnology.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs appartenant à des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Minorités > Dans la littérature.
Ethnicité > Dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Thèmes, motifs.
Caractère national américain.
Ethnicité > États-Unis.
American literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
Ethnicity.
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
English literature > American writers, to 1980 - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Table of contents
Publisher description
French equivalent / Équivalent français
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond ethnicity
  • Typology and ethnogenesis
  • Melting pots
  • Romantic love, arranged marriage, and Indian melancholy
  • 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.

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