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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... less diver- sity of culture than most others , are we so preoccupied with diversity and so inclined to conceive of it as cultural ? " American diversity , he con- cludes , is a " cozy truism " ( 31 ) . Appiah's conclusions were ...
... less conspicuous example of how contempo- rary multiculturalism tends to celebrate diversity in the process of ana- lyzing it is seen in David Theo Goldberg's introduction to his important volume Multiculturalism : A Critical Reader ...
... less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens " ( 763 ) . What is striking about Madison's rhetoric is the dramatic shift from " faction " to " variety . " In the first part ...
... less cynical and deter- ministic view of modernity , one that possessed the pragmatic spirit of possibility in believing that one could realize one's potential as an indi- vidual while belonging to a larger community . For James ...
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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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