The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism - Couverture souple

Sollors, Werner

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399536222 ISBN 13 : 9781399536226

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors’ ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity

• Introduces key concepts in ethnic studies, including ‘consent and descent’, ‘ethnic modernism’, ‘interracialism’, ‘assimilationism’, ‘multilingualism’
• Includes influential readings in American, African-American and Jewish-American Literatures including Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mary Antin’s The Promised Land and Teju Cole’s Open City
• Presents field-defining essays on the challenge posed by interracialism and multilingualism to homogeneous conceptions of identity

Transnational in scope and comparative in method, the essays open up new avenues for cultural study in the age of Trump, Brexit and identity politics.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399536222
• ISBN 13: 9781399536226
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Williams Daniel G.
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