"From now on no one will be able to...write about ethnic literature without acknowledging Sollors' seminal work."--American Literature "A well-considered social study, worth reading and to be recommended as a profitable source and textbook." --International Social Science Review "Grave and hilarious, tender and merciless....The book performs a public service."--Quentin Anderson. "A brilliant and informative book."--Milton M. Gordon, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. "These are volatile issues, and Werner Sollors takes them up with appropriate seriousness but, to his credit, utterly without the piety or pandering of most writers on ethnicity in America."--Boston Review "From now on no one will be able to...write about ethnic literature without acknowledging Sollors' seminal work."--American Literature "A well-considered social study, worth reading and to be recommended as a profitable source and textbook." --International Social Science Review

A fascinating account of the intersection of literature and culture on the topic of ethnicity, spans Puritan autobiographies, to 20th-century Afro-American and immigrant experiences. An ambitious attempt to provide an overarching theoretical framework with which to view all ethnic writing.

A fascinating account of the intersection of literature and culture on the topic of ethnicity, spans Puritan autobiographies, to 20th-century Afro-American and immigrant experiences. An ambitious attempt to provide an overarching theoretical framework with which to view all ethnic writing.