Werner Sollors Reader Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism
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Biografisk notat
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).Williams’s Reader does not provide access to all of Sollors’s contributions, but it is an excellent primer. It does all one could ask a volume of 468 pages to do for so capacious a body of scholarly work. No writer of the last half-century has done as much as Werner Sollors to illuminate the history of American diversity.
- David A. Hollinger, Reviews in American History
The Werner Sollors Reader doesn’t need posterity to be considered a cultural classic. These are spectacular essays, wide-ranging and shape-shifting. They courageously risk engaging with the most pressing predicaments of literary history and cultural values as they unfold in the everyday of our living and thinking. Sollors has crafted a critical voice of enduring civility to develop a cosmopolitanism of the marginalized and overlooked. At the same time, Sollors celebrates the enormous brilliance and creativity of African Americans in the US and minorities elsewhere.
- Homi Bhabha, Harvard University,
What this doorstop of an anthology proves is that no matter what topic Sollors turns to—the role of ethnicity in American literature, the benefits of multilingualism, the importance of interracial relationships in American culture—the different strands of his thinking always converge, in a cogent refutation of all exclusionary definitions of Americanness.
- Christoph Irmscher, Harvard Magazine