Modern commentators have saw that postmodern the USA is much less a melting pot than a buffet desk. In American Identities humans of numerous ethnic, non secular, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge yet insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities, " editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini clarify. This 6th quantity within the renowned Bread Loaf Anthology sequence gathers greater than 3 dozen voices who testify that there's no unmarried American adventure, yet in its place a multiplicity of reviews. those poems, tales, and essays describe in sometimes stark, occasionally funny, and sometimes relocating phrases what it potential to be black and American, or homosexual and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American inside of this society.
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