The Werner Sollors Reader
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3622-6 (ISBN)
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Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Harvard University in the United States and is regarded, in Cornel West’s words, ‘as one of the finest scholars that we have on race and cultural hybridity in both this country and the world’. This Reader offers the first comprehensive overview of the work of a central figure in the field of ethnic studies. The pieces collected here range from Puritan New England to contemporary Germany, from ‘Exodus’ to Mary Antin’s Promised Land, from the ‘Curse of Ham’ to Teju Cole. They attest to Sollors’ deep historical sensibilities, his attention to textual detail and his awareness of the costs and opportunities of both cosmopolitan ideals and particularist commitments, whilst addressing a central question: why does modernisation take the form of ethnicisation in many places around the globe?
The collected essays are complemented by a detailed introduction by Daniel G. Williams which foregrounds some of the key emphases and tensions in Sollors’ writings.
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of several volumes on race and ethnicity including Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986), Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997) and Ethnic Modernism (2008). Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English Literature at Swansea University and author of Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois (2006), Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales 1845–1945 (2012) and Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century (2015).
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Schwarz, Braun, und Beige:: Towards Cosmopolitan Particularism
Daniel G. Williams
Part I. Terms and Definitions
1. The Invention of Ethnicity
2. Race and Ethnicity
Part II. American Literature
Overviews
3. Between Consent and Descent: Studying Ethnic Literature in the USA
4. Typology and Ethnogenesis
5. Ethnic Modernism
Readings
6. Edward Taylor
7. Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson
8. Hemingway and American Style
9. Richard Rodriguez’s Autobiographical Writing
Part III. African American Literature
Overview
10. The Wright Era: Native Son and the African American Novel
Readings
11. Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
12. Adrienne Kennedy and Tragedy
13. Teju Cole’s Open City and Cosmopolitanism
Part IV. Jewish American Literature
Overview
14. Assimilation and Dissimilation in Jewish American Prose Writing, 1900-1950
Readings
15. Mary Antin’s The Promised Land
16. Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep
Part V. Multilingualism
Overview
17. The Blind Spot of Multiculturalism: America’s Invisible Literature
Readings
18. Non-English American Short Stories
19. German-Language Literature about the United States, and German-American Writing
Part VI. Interracialism
Overview
20. Can Rabbits Have Interracial Sex?
Readings
21. The Curse of Ham
22. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings
23. Incest and Miscegenation
Part VII. World War II and after in Germany
Overview
24. Before Success
Readings
25. “Better to Die by Them than for Them”: Carl Schmitt Reads “Benito Cereno”
26. “Everybody Gets Fragebogened Sooner or Later”: The Denazification Questionnaire as Cultural Text
27. A Child at Bergen-Belsen: A Photograph from 1945
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3622-2 / 1399536222 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3622-6 / 9781399536226 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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