Beyond Ethnicity: Consent & Descent in American Culture (Revised)

Title: Beyond Ethnicity: Consent & Descent in American Culture (Revised) Author: Sollors, Werner ISBN: 0195051939 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 1987 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Y 1634563 Publisher Description: Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis. 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