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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... rhetoric of vari- ety 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 ...
... rhetoric , however , supports two mutually exclusive models of national unity , demonstrating that American diversity is not loyal to any political persuasion . For Madrid , the United States represents a loosely unified nation ...
... rhetoric has been employed to promote con- flicting and mutually exclusive notions of national identity . In general terms , I will explore how this shibboleth has been used rather than at- tempting to prove or disprove its veracity ...
... rhetoric of diversity provides a concep- tual crutch , a deus ex machina that saves us from having to grapple with complicated and partisan stances . More specifically , diversity , with its connotations of plenitude and abundance ...
... rhetoric of diversity operated within U.S. culture to alleviate two apparently con- tradictory sources of anxiety : first , concerns about the crisis of individu- ality due to the encroaching homogeneity of modernity ; and second ...
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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 | |