The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National DistinctivenessHarvard University Press, 2000 - 380 من الصفحات The turn of the last century, amid the excesses of the Gilded Age, variety became a key notion for Americans—a sign of national progress and development, reassurance that the modern nation would not fall into monotonous dullness or disorderly chaos. Carrie Tirado Bramen pursues this idea through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres ranging from intra-urban walking tours in popular magazines to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, she shows how the rhetoric of variety became naturalized and nationalized as quintessentially American and inherently democratic. By focusing on the uses of the term in the work of William James, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hamlin Garland, and Wong Chin Foo, among many others, Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism. |
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... Bois , Hamlin Garland , and Wong Chin Foo , among many others , Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism . Bramen's ...
... Bois Reader , ed . Eric J. Sundquist William James , Pragmatism : A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking William James , A Pluralistic Universe : Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy WPR John ...
... Bois concluded that " the most significant economic change among Negroes in the last ten or twenty years has been their influx into northern cities " ( qtd . Meier 274 ) . Internal migrations were catalyzed , in part , by the economic ...
... Bois and Frances Harper , it helps connect " subcultures of criticism " ( Cornel West's phrase ) with modern Americanism . The discourse of American variety also has limits : it links subcultures with national cultures and international ...
... Bois . Addressing not " monism " in an abstract sense but 100 percent Americanism and what Kallen aptly called " Ku- kluxitis , " Kallen " Judaized " and Du Bois " Africanized " the Jamesian " each - form " as a sign of subcultural ...
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William James and the Modern Federal Republic | 29 |
Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism | 67 |
The Uneven Development of American Regionalism | 115 |
The Urban Picturesque and Americanization | 156 |
Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory | 201 |
East Meets West at the Worlds Parliament of Religions | 250 |
In Defense of Partiality | 293 |
Notes | 307 |
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Acknowledgments | 361 |
365 | |