Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience
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This innovative multicultural reader gathers together diaries, histories, autobiographies, short stories, and excerpts from novels to bring the many facets of the American experience to life, from sixteenth-century explorations to this century's ongoing saga of immigration and acculturation. Extending the traditional boundaries of the American literary canon, the editors first offer a comprehensive overview of the history of multicultural social and literary patterns in the United States, and then present a wealth of richly diverse stories--construing that term in the broadest possible sense--from both celebrated and lesser-known authors emphasizing pluralistic experience. Whenever possible, they present narratives of cross-cultural contact and exchange, rather than reports of cultures observed in isolation. Offering a uniquely broad range of readings within a strong thematic structure, Kaleidoscope is an enjoyable and enlightening reader for anyone interested in American literature and history, or the new emphasis on multiculturalism.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195072227
ISBN13:9780195072228
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:688 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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Wonderful resource, from classic to the present.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is an excellent book for multicultural studies of American fiction and good for reading pleasure or educational uses. The writers included are of the best calibre and the stories varied in tone, humor and drama, tragedy and laughter. Daniela Gioseffi's story Rosa in Television Land is absolutely superb and entertaining. Excellent! I love Nathaniel Hawthorne's little known story, The Maypole of Marymount. Well done. Great anthology.
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