American visions : multicultural literature for writers

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American visions : multicultural literature for writers

Dolores laGuardia, Hans P. Guth

Mayfield, c1995

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Includes index

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内容説明

This anthology of lierature for writing classes embodies a sense of history. It presents its themes in historical perspective - to help explain who Americans are and what America is as a nation. It focuses on major concerns and shifts in consciousness, such as the idea of America as the land of promise; the search for a national identity; the reclaiming of the Native American past; the lure and limitations of American individualism; the challenges to American optimism; the trauma of slavery; the glory and decline of the American city; the search for personal fulfilment; the emergence of a new multicultural consciousness; and the rediscovery of nature.

目次

  • Part 1 New world - the promise of America: poems - "To the Western World", Louis Simpson, "Five Aztec Poems", Stephen Berg, "To the Memory of My Father", Anne Bradstreet, "To Thomas Jefferson, Esquire", Archibald Macleish
  • documents - "The Mayflower Covenant", "The Declaration of Independence", Thomas Jefferson
  • essay - "Jefferson and the Equality of Man", Douglas L. Wilson
  • oratory - Independence Day speech, Frederick Douglass, address on women's rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Part 2 New nation - the one and the many: poems - "I Understand the Large Heart of Heroes", Walt Whitman, "Legacy II", Leroy V. Quintana, "After the Funeral", Joan I. Siegel, "Marriage Was a Foreign Country", Mitsuye Yamada
  • letter - "What is an American?", St Jean De Crevecoeur
  • fiction - :Only Yesterday", Ellen Glasgow
  • "Eileen", Mary Gordon
  • "Mexicans", Sandra Cisneros
  • play - "The Dance and the Railroad", David Henry Hwang. Native Americans - reclaiming the past: poems - "New World", N. Scott Momaday, "Moving Camp Too Far", Nila Northsun, "Sure you Can Ask Me a Personal Question", Diane Burns, "Leaving", Joy Harjo, "When I Was a Child I Played With the Boys", Mary Mackey
  • fiction - "Lives Far Child", Craig Street
  • essay - "Where I Come From is Like This", Paula Gunn Allen
  • fiction - "Private Property", Leslie Marmon Silko, "The Red Covertible", Louise Erdrich. Part 4 American individualism - a different drummer: poems - "A Bird Came Down the Walk", "Hope is the Thing with Feathers", "The Soul Selects Her Own Society", "I'm Nobody! Who are You?", "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" all by Emily Dickenson
  • essay - "Where I Lived and What I Lived For", Henry David Thoreau.

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