American Visions: Multicultural Literature for Writers
- ISBN-10
- 1559343222
- ISBN-13
- 9781559343220
- Series
- American Visions
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 742
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
- Authors
- Dolores LaGuardia, Hans Paul Guth
Description
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.
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