05227nam 2200709Ia 450 991081103160332120240410084629.01-280-65488-01-4237-3547-10-19-802451-71-60129-936-2(CKB)1000000000028699(SSID)ssj0000194212(PQKBManifestationID)11183184(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194212(PQKBWorkID)10227386(PQKB)11667828(MiAaPQ)EBC241239(Au-PeEL)EBL241239(CaPaEBR)ebr10087186(CaONFJC)MIL65488(OCoLC)936914041(MiAaPQ)EBC3051924(Au-PeEL)EBL3051924(OCoLC)932347269(EXLCZ)99100000000002869919930507d1993 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLoose canons[electronic resource] notes on the culture wars /Henry Louis Gates, Jr1st ed.New York Oxford University Press1993xix, 199 pIncludes index.0-19-508350-4 Canon confidential: a Sam Slade caper -- The master's pieces: on canon formation and the African-American tradition -- Writing, "Race" and the difference it makes -- Talking black: critical signs of the times -- "Tell me, sir,...what IS "black" literature?" -- Integrating the American mind -- African-American studies in the 21st century -- "What's in a name?" Some meanings of blackness -- The big picture -- Trading on the margin: notes on the culture of criticism.Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine Stimpson on "Firing Line." It is arguably the most hotly debated topic in America today--and justly so. For whether one speaks of tensions between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights, or violent mass protests against Moscow in ethnic republics such as Armenia, or outright war between Serbs and Bosnians in the former Yugoslavia, it is clear that the clash of cultures is a worldwide problem, deeply felt, passionately expressed, always on the verge of violent explosion. Problems of this magnitude inevitably frame the discussion of "multiculturalism" and "cultural diversity" in the American classroom as well. In Loose Canons, one of America's leading literary and cultural critics, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., offers a broad, illuminating look at this highly contentious issue. Gates agrees that our world is deeply divided by nationalism, racism, and sexism, and argues that the only way to transcend these divisions--to forge a civic culture that respects both differences and similarities--is through education that respects both the diversity and commonalities of human culture. His is a plea for cultural and intercultural understanding. (You can't understand the world, he observes, if you exclude 90 percent of the world's cultural heritage.) We feel his ideas most strongly voiced in the concluding essay in the volume, "Trading on the Margin." Avoiding the stridency of both the Right and the Left, Gates concludes that the society we have made simply won't survive without the values of tolerance, and cultural tolerance comes to nothing withoutcultural understanding. Henry Louis Gates is one of the most visible and outspoken figures on the academic scene, the subject of a cover story in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and a major profile in The Boston Globe, and a much sought-after commentator. And as one of America's foremost advocates of African-American Studies (he is head of the department at Harvard), he has reflected upon the varied meanings of multiculturalism throughout his professional career, long before it became a national controversy. What we find in these pages, then, is the fruit of years of reflection on culture, racism, and the "American identity," and a deep commitment to broadening the literary and cultural horizons of all Americans.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcAmerican literatureStudy and teaching (Higher)Literature and societyUnited StatesAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeRace in literatureCanon (Literature)American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.American literatureStudy and teaching (Higher)Literature and societyAfrican AmericansIntellectual life.Race in literature.Canon (Literature)810.9896073Gates Henry Louis243500MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811031603321Loose canons4041518UNINA02945nam 2200697 a 450 991081461650332120240418045400.00-8139-3485-0(CKB)2550000001108737(EBL)3444128(OCoLC)855907953(SSID)ssj0001035779(PQKBManifestationID)11601620(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035779(PQKBWorkID)11032810(PQKB)11134396(MiAaPQ)EBC3444128(MdBmJHUP)muse27797(Au-PeEL)EBL3444128(CaPaEBR)ebr10745114(CaONFJC)MIL508823(EXLCZ)99255000000110873720130319d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComposing cultures modernism, American literary studies, and the problem of culture /Eric Aronoff1st ed.Charlottesville University of Virginia Press20131 online resource (239 p.)Cultural frames, framing cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8139-3483-4 1-299-77572-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Van Wyck Brooks and Edward Sapir: Divided American and the form of genuine culture -- Possessing culture: Willa Cather's aesthetic of culture in The song of the lark and The professor's house -- The hunt for the whole (whale): Modernist culture and the Melville revival -- Recovering the whole: Culture, region and poetry in the literary criticism of John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate -- Conclusion: Composing critical cultures.Through close readings, Aronoff shows that disciplines and approaches that are often thought of as opposed--cultural anthropology and aesthetics, American literary history and literary criticism, and multiculturalism and regionalism--are in fact engaged in common debate and proceed from shared arguments about culture and form.Cultural Frames, Framing CultureAmerican literatureHistory and criticismPopular culture in literatureLiterature and societyUnited StatesCulture in literatureModernism (Literature)United StatesAnthropology in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Popular culture in literature.Literature and societyCulture in literature.Modernism (Literature)Anthropology in literature.810.9/3552Aronoff Eric Paul Wallach1631771MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814616503321Composing cultures3970556UNINA