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Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land

Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land

Brown, Wesley
Ling, Amy

Hardcover

Letters & Essays20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0892553782
ISBN13: 9780892553785
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: Oct 1 1993
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this rich and diverse collection, three dozen 20th-century writers muse about their experiences in and observations of America. Though the essays are organized in rough chronological fashion, some emphasize place (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on Bensonhurst, Michael Stephens on Hawaii), others identity (Richard Rodriguez on language, Eva Hoffman on postmodern uncertainty), others the immigrant experience (Bharati Mukherjee) or the changing times (Joan Didion on the 1960s, James Farmer on the civil rights movement). Some Americans must leave home to find insights (June Jordan in the Bahamas), while some non-Americans come here to observe, such as the Palestinian Anton Shammas (who sees the country as big enough to contain the portable homelands brought by immigrants). Amidst the play of ideas and emotions surrounding ethnicity and identity, essays by Wendell Berry and Gretel Ehrlich celebrate the enduring truths of the land.

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