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Academic Skip to main content. Search Start Search. Choose your country or region Close. Dear Customer, As a global organization, we, like many others, recognize the significant threat posed by the coronavirus. Please contact our Customer Service Team if you have any questions. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. It is true that contemporary Americans tend to study fewer foreign languages than do their peers in other modernized countries.
Also embarrassing is the small number of works of foreign literature translated annually into English in the United States. These are issues that deserve serious attention. American literature, however, has on the whole been remarkably open internationally and has included many, many minority, border-crossing, immigrant, refugee, multilingual, hybrid, and expatriate voices who have done the cultural work of reimagining and recasting the Unites States as a multiethnic country, connected with the whole world Harvard UP Blog.
It is just such innovative cultural work that Sollors has accomplished in his own scholarship as Henry B. Ethnic identity, seen this way, "is logically and historically the product of the assertion that 'A is an X because he is not a Y'"-a proposition which makes it remarkably easy to identify Xness.
By the same token, the definition of Xs as non-Ys threatens to exaggerate their differences in such a way that if the Xs think of themselves as human, they may therefore consider the Y s as somehow nonhuman.
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