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The Pluralist Imagination: From East to West in American Literature offers a refreshing look at narratives of American national identity formation."—Cristina Stanciu,
Studies in American Indian Literatures“Julianne Newmark leads us back in time to multiethnic authors who thought deeply and creatively about some of the seemingly intractable racialized rhetorics that still bedevil us today. This is a timely, beautiful, and ultimately hopeful book, one that has much to say about larger public conversations surrounding American identity, how we read the past, and how we build coalitions across racial and ethnic lines.”—Siobhan Senier, editor of Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England
Table of Contents List of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Social and Cultural Milieus of Pluralism in the American Literary Imagination1. The Early Emergence of Pluralism in Modern American Literature2. Counternativist Pluralism in the American Southwest3. Trans-national Pluralism and Native SovereigntyConclusion: Against the New NativismNotesBibliographyIndex
