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Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex and Nationality in the Modern Text (Essays of the English Institute)
by Hortense J. Spillers

    Publication Date: Apr 12, 1991
    List Price: $29.95
    Format: Paperback, 206 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780415903509
    Imprint: Routledge
    Publisher: Routledge
    Parent Company: Taylor & Francis

    Description of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex and Nationality in the Modern Text (Essays of the English Institute) by Hortense J. Spillers


    What constitutes the pervasive cultural assumptions known to us as "America?" Since the American hemisphere actually encompasses a variety of national identities, can it make sense to speak of a unified "American" identity? Can a place for marginalized identities be established within the cultural mainstream? Comparative American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of "New World" cultural identities, questions and problems. The essays attempt to locate "America" as a cultural and historical site of plurality and division, a discursive space of multiple differences which becomes, paradoxically, the ground for a new notion of American unity.



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