Multiculturalism And The Canon Of American Culture

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Multiculturalism and the Canon of American Culture

Author : Hans Bak
Publisher : Vu University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053830185
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and the Canon of American Culture written by Hans Bak and published by Vu University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the unity of American culture has been a major topic of literary and intellectual discussion in the United States. The established reading of the American national identity has come under mounting pressure from ethnic minorities of non-European origin. Leading universities have adjusted the Eurocentric canon of the Western literary and cultural tradition, or are considering the need to do so. As a result, a fierce and polarizing debate is being conducted among American writers, intellectuals and educators. In the nineteen essays gathered in this volume scholars from Europe and North America explore the complex range of tensions between the various subcultures and the cultural mainstream in the United States and Canada, as exemplified in intellectual debate, in politics, in religion, in higher education, and in literature, especially in recent American writing by members of cultural minorities: Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and African Americans.

American Literature and the Culture Wars

Author : Gregory S. Jay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731270
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book American Literature and the Culture Wars written by Gregory S. Jay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What is the appropriate purpose and scope of such pursuits? Is the notion of a traditional canon of great books out of date? Where does American literature leave off and Mexican or Caribbean or Canadian or postcolonial literature begin? Are today's campus conflicts fueled more by economics or ideology? Jay addresses these questions and others relating to American literary studies to explain why this once arcane academic discipline found itself so often in the news during the culture wars of the 1990s. While asking some skeptical questions about new directions and practices, Jay argues forcefully in favor of opening the borders of American literary and cultural analysis. He relates the struggle for representation in literary theory to a larger cultural clash over the meaning and justice of representation, then shows how this struggle might expand both the contents and the teaching of American literature. In an account of the vexed legacy of the Declaration of Independence, he provides a historical context for the current quarrels over literature and politics. Prominent among these debates are those over multiculturalism, which Jay takes up in an essay on the impasses of identity politics. In closing, he considers how the field of comparative American cultural studies might be constructed.

Loose Canons

Author : Henry Louis Gates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195083504
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Loose Canons written by Henry Louis Gates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines multiculturism in American literature and the cultural diversity found in the American classroom.

The Great Canon Controversy

Author : William Casement
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412837064
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Great Canon Controversy written by William Casement and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate about teaching the great books of the Western canon has galvanized American higher education in recent years. The Great Canon Controversy provides an overview of the debate, summarizing the position for the canon and the position against it. Casement supports continued teaching of the canon and respect for it, while calling for revising reading lists to include nontraditional works. Part I describes how the canon was taught from ancient Greece to the present, noting key arguments for this form of pedagogy that are still with us today, specific books that were taught at different times over the centuries, and controversies the canon has been subject to in the past. Part II deals with anticanonism, epistemological and political dimensions of the theory underlying it. Casement then shows concrete examples of anticanonism in operation, at Stanford University and St. Lawrence University. Casement argues that, while much of what anticanonists say is hyperbolic or mistaken, we should listen to their demand to give fair treatment to works by marginalized authors and to great non-Western works. This means re-reviewing works worthy of canonization that may have been obscured by prejudice, but still requiring that they make it on their own merits and not out of sympathy for their authors. The Great Canon Controversy will be of great interest to educators and students alike, as well as those interested in the future of higher education in the United States.

Multiculturalism in Transit

Author : Klaus J. Milich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789206014
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism in Transit written by Klaus J. Milich and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial topics in both the United States and Germany.This interdisciplinary collection of essays by German scholars in American Studies and American scholars in German Studies analyze the "other" from this dual perspective and from their respective disciplines such as literary and cultural studies, political science, anthropology,and history. More particularly they examine multiculturalism in terms of national and ethnic identities, as well as gender and race, and look at the disciplines and institutions that produce and legitimize discourses on subjects such as minority literatures, feminism, and the notion of foreignness itself. What becomes clear is the fact that careful attention must be paid to the particular conditions and different ideological concepts that shape this term, i.e., the "national" historical, political, social, and institutional contexts in which it appears, circulates, and accrues meanings. Contributors: G. Welz, T. Brennan, B. Ostendorf, R. Hof, S. Lennox, A. Koenen, F. Hajek, C.Gersdorf, G. H. Lenz, F. Trommler, H. C. Seeba, A. Seyhan, A. Hornung, B. Thomas, G. O. Kvistad, H.-J. Puhle

Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America

Author : Amy Lynn Corbin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113747971X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America written by Amy Lynn Corbin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Corbin argues that films about significant cultural landscapes in America evoke a sense of travel for their viewers. These virtual travel experiences from the mid-1970s through the 1990s built a societal map of "popular multiculturalism" through a movie-going experience.

Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics

Author : L. Caton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610285
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics written by L. Caton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America's contemporary novel. Organized through the two sections of "Theory" and "Practice," Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics begins with a study of aesthetic form only to have it reveal the content of politics and history. This presentation immediately offers a unified platform for an interchange between multiple cultural and aesthetic positions. Romantic theory provides for an integrated examination of diversity, one that metaphorically fosters a solid, inclusive, and democratic legitimacy for intercultural communication. This politically astute cosmopolitan appreciation will generate an intriguing "cross-over" audience: from ethnic studies to American studies and from literary studies to romantic studies, this book will interest a range of readers.

Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates

Author : Mary Jo Bona
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481751
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates written by Mary Jo Bona and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection reinvigorates the debate over the inclusion of multiethnic literature in the American literary canon. While multiethnic literature has earned a place in the curriculum on many large campuses, it is still a controversial topic at many others, as recent campus and corporate revivals of The Great Books attest. Many still perceive multiethnic literature as being governed by ideological and political issues, perpetuating a false distinction between highbrow "literary" texts and multiethnic works. Through historical overviews and textual analyses, the contributors not only argue for the aesthetic validity of multiethnic literature, but also examine the innovative ways in which multiethnic literature is taught and critiqued. The following questions are also addressed: Who and what determines literary value? What role do scholars, students, the reading public, book awards, and/or publishers play in affirming literary value? Taken together, these essays underscore the necessity for maintaining vibrant conversations about the place of multiethnic literature both inside and outside the academy.

Making Multiculturalism

Author : Bethany Paige Bryson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751643
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Making Multiculturalism written by Bethany Paige Bryson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryson deconstructs the "canon wars" and uses English departments to demonstrate that social structure is the cornerstone of culture and the appropriate target for cultural policy.

Multicultural Poetics

Author : Nissa Parmar
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438468458
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Poetics written by Nissa Parmar and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nations poetry and its culture. Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed Americas multicultural renaissance, the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development. Parmar demonstrates her mastery of the immense body of scholarship devoted to the poetic lineage Multicultural Poetics engages. She writes with elegance and tact and displays her ability to simplify several conceptsliminality, the third space, interstitialityof the most confounding of contemporary theorists. Donald E. Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism

Cultural Capital

Author : John Guillory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226830594
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Capital written by John Guillory and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since its initial publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the compilation and codification of what was once known, unassailably, as the literary canon. Cultural Capital challenges the putative objectivity of aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and literary knowledge on which "culture" had long been based. Now, as the "crisis of the canon" has evolved into the "crisis of humanities," Guillory's groundbreaking, incisive work has never been more relevant and urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre writes in her introduction to this new edition: "Exclusion, selection, reflection, representation-these are the terms on which the canon wars of the last century were fought, and the terms that continue to inform debates about, for instance, decolonizing the curriculum and the rhetoric of antiracist pedagogy.""--

Emergent U.S. Literatures

Author : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479879502
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Emergent U.S. Literatures written by Cyrus R. K. Patell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, Cyrus R. K. Patell compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures within "U.S. minority literature." Drawing on recent theories of cosmopolitanism, Patell presents methods for mapping the overlapping concerns of the texts and authors of these literatures during the late twentieth century. He discusses the ways in which literary marginalization and cultural hybridity combine to create the grounds for literature that is truly "emergent" in Raymond Williams's sense of the term--literature that produces "new meanings and values, new practices, new relationships and kinds of relationships" in tension with the dominant, mainstream culture of the United States. By enabling us to see the American literary canon through the prism of hybrid identities and cultures, these texts require us to reevaluate what it means to write (and read) in the American grain. Emergent U.S. Literatures gives readers a sense of how these foundational texts work as aesthetic objects--rather than merely as sociological documents--crafted in dialogue with the canonical tradition of so-called "American Literature," as it existed in the late twentieth century, as well as in dialogue with each other"--

The Promise of Multiculturalism

Author : George N. Katsiaficas
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415921268
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Multiculturalism written by George N. Katsiaficas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ongoing culture wars, multiculturalism represents a threat to traditional values for some, and a promise for a more inclusive society for others. This rich collection demonstrates multiculturalism's potential to transform human society and teach it to respect--rather than reject or merely tolerate--difference. It offers diverse approaches to multiculturalism as it applies to contemporary themes of autonomy, identity and education. Drawing on philosophy, literature, sociology, history and political science, the contributors weave together personal narratives, pedagogical interpretations and global perspectives to offer a vision of the twenty-first century.

Multicultural Poetics

Author : Nissa Parmar
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438468466
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Poetics written by Nissa Parmar and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture. Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America’s “multicultural renaissance,” the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development. Nissa Parmar is Lecturer in Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota and teaches at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is the coeditor (with Anna Hewitt and Alex Goody) of Mapping the Self: Place, Identity, Nationality.

The Opening of the American Mind

Author : Lawrence W. Levine
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807031193
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Opening of the American Mind written by Lawrence W. Levine and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997-08-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publicly greeted as the definitive answer to recent attacks on the university, Lawrence W. Levine's book is a brilliantly argued positive vision of American education and culture.

United States

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437074568
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book United States written by A. Robert Lee and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2009 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este estudio analiza un orden literario cambiante: América como unidad y diversidad, como un ente nacional y transnacional. Los escritos críticos literarios reunidos aquí ofrecen una serie de perspectivas que trazan gran parte de la geografía cultural en juego: la narrativa, la autobiografía, el teatro, etc. Se presentan también un conjunto de ensayos-reseñas que, entre diversas direcciones de enfoque, prestan atención a los cimientos previos a Colón, a una antología canónica norteamericana de poesía y a lo omitido; la narrativa latina y a los principales dramaturgos antiguos. Incluye entrevistas a creativos y académicos como Gerald Vizenor, Frank Chin, Louis Owens, John Cawelti y Rex Burns. La sección de reseñas final da una recepción-secuencia de monografías de relevante erudición multicultural así como contribuciones al emergente y amplio mural de análisis.

A Journey to Unlearn and Learn in Multicultural Education

Author : Hongyu Wang
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433104466
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Journey to Unlearn and Learn in Multicultural Education written by Hongyu Wang and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicultural teacher education does not work without attending to the inner landscapes of learners. This collection of essays depicts a journey of unlearning deeply cherished assumptions, and gaining new, difficult understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and global issues in teacher education. Foregrounding learners' own voices and highlighting those intimate moments of awakening through a process-oriented and dialogic approach, this book, in its profoundly moving narrative and critically reflective voices, speaks directly to pre-service and in-service teachers and informs teacher educators' multicultural pedagogical theory and practice. Demonstrating the power of multicultural education through the learner's lens, this compelling and inspirational book is a much-needed text for undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education, multicultural education, curriculum studies, and social foundations of education.