In this collection of essays, Americanists from the United States, Germany, and Latvia enter the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralization of societies on the North American continent by correlating the issues of multiculturalism and ethnic survival. Spanning six centuries and covering the cultural work and literary representation of eight ethnic groups in the USA and Canada, the essays demonstrate that the scope of the debate has to be widened to reflect the complexity of a subject which has too long been reduced to convenient but simplistic binaries.
| ISBN: | 9783631612187 |
| Publication date: | 23rd July 2012 |
| Author: | Renate von Bardeleben, Sabina MatterSeibel, Klaus H Schmidt |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 261 pages |
| Series: | Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Gender studies, gender groups Regional / International studies |