In recent years the unity of American culture has been a major topic of literary and intellectual discussion in the United States. The established reading of the American national identity has come under mounting pressure from ethnic minorities of non-European origin. Leading universities have adjusted the Eurocentric canon of the Western literary and cultural tradition, or are considering the need to do so. As a result, a fierce and polarizing debate is being conducted among American writers, intellectuals and educators.In the nineteen essays gathered in this volume scholars from Europe and North America explore the complex range of tensions between the various subcultures and the cultural mainstream in the United States and Canada, as exemplified in intellectual debate, in politics, in religion, in higher education, and in literature, especially in recent American writing by members of cultural minorities: Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and African Americans.

Multiculturalism and the Canon of American Culture (European Contributions to American Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Netherlands American Studies Association

Sociology

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Companion to Old English Poetry

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Politics, Administration and Public Policy in Developing Countries: Examples from America, Asia and Latin America

Asmerom, H. K.

Politics & Government

Proceedings of international conference held at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 10-14 December 1990, organised for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics. Cover title: Essays: power and prayer on religion and politics.

Power and Prayer: Religious and Political Processes in Past and Present (Centrepol-Vu Studies)

History

World

Now that HIV/AIDS has grown to be epidemic in most countries, it is important that it is redefined as a social and developmental problem, rather than only as a medical issue. It is therefore necessary to influence the way in which HIV/AIDS is presented to the general public. The World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS emphasizes that more attention should be given to working through non-governmental organizations in this respect. In this book contributions from Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam, Zambia and other countries show some of the problems that must be overcome and how AIDS can be portrayed not merely as a medical problem. It provides descriptions of how media and authorities has dealt with AIDS and how workshops and campaigns can help alter the image of AIDS.

Altering the Image of AIDS (Primary Health Care Publications, Vol 8)

Social Sciences

Hollywood in Europe: Experiences of a Cultural Hegemony (European Contributions to American Studies ; 28)

Ellwood, David W.

Kroes, R.

Medjugorje: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Rural Bosnia (Anthropological Studies)

Bax, Mart

Europe

Under American New Historicism and British Cultural Studies, increasing attention has been paid to the idea of the nation as a discursive construct. 'Writing' Nation and 'Writing' Region in America looks at the various regionalisms in American culture as comparable constructs, and more specifically at 'writing region' as a subsidiary or counter-discourse to 'writing nation'. The various articles in the volume pursue this topic from a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives: historical, sociological, anthropological, geographical, cinematic, and literary.

Writing Nation and 'Writing' Region in America (European Contributions to American Studies, 33)

Robin, Ron

Raymond, C. Elizabeth

Moore, Gene M.

Gray, Richard

Peacock, John

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Honnighausen, Lothar

Kugelmass, Jack

Bockting, Ineke

Bosscher, Doeko

Carafiol, Peter

Deutsch, James I.

Dorst, John

Eysberg, C. D.

Kaenel, Andre

Leenhouts, Anneke

Neinstein, Raymond L.

Oostrum, Duco Van

Romeyn, Esther

Scheele, Andrea

History & Criticism

Dialogues on Women: Images of Women in the History of Philosophy

Derksen, L. D.

Philosophy

"Dance in Sri Lanka stands at the heart of the rituals formerly performed for the welfare of the kingdom. In traditional Sinhala society the occupational group of dancers was integrated into a feudal system in which services to the king and to the Buddhist temples were rewarded by giving rights to cultivate land. The roots of the Sinhala dance are to be found in the oldest surviving dance-cult of the country, the Kohomba Kankariya ritual, which was connected to the maintenance of peace between descendants of aboriginal groups and the descendants of Indian invaders under Prince Vijaya. In the 20th century, however, modern stage dancing emerged: the Citrasena school. This school broke away from caste barriers and gender roles, and accomplished the transformation of traditional dancing to a modern indigenous form of art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Political Violence in Sri Lanka, 1977-1990: Riots, Insurrections, Counter-Insurgencies, Foreign Intervention (V U University Pr (Ne)) (English and Tamil Edition)

Senaratne, Jagath P.

Asia

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