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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... diversity as the distinctive feature of U.S. cul- ture . In the late - nineteenth - century concep- tion , which emphasized the openness of vari- ety while at the same time acknowledging its limits , she finds a useful corrective to the ...
... DIVERSITY 3 The Uneven Development of American Regionalism 115 4 The Urban Picturesque and Americanization 156 III HETEROGENEOUS UNIONS 5 Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory 201 6 East Meets West at the World's Parliament of ...
... diversity . It is diverse in its geography , population , institutions , technology ; its social , cultural , and intellectual modes . It is a society that at its best does not consider quality to be monolithic in form or finite in ...
... Diversity signals a far different social and political agenda for Bennett than it does for Madrid , one that must be domesticated within a seem- ingly stable conception of the nation . Bennett ultimately manages to turn the diversity of ...
... diversity . It is adaptability . Qualities that are truly American " ( qtd . Rouse 380 ) . In the same year , a special issue of Time ex- tols diversity as the " fuel that runs today's America , " which " puts Amer- ica in the forefront ...
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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 |
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