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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... of our age , " namely that the United States is a " society of enormous cultural diversity " ( 30 ) . " Coming as I do from Ghana , I find the broad cultural homogeneity of America more striking than its Americanizing Variety 3.
... namely the invisibility of labor ? Diversity is located in the eating rather than the cooking ( or the serving ) of food . Both examples of American diversity — Young's " unoppressive city " and Stiehm's taco stand — are premised on the ...
... namely diversity and its late Victorian equivalent , variety . I am interested in how the equation of Americanism and diversity / variety became naturalized as common sense . How and for what purposes did the seemingly benign discourse ...
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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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