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What this doorstop of an anthology proves is that no matter what topic Sollors turns to--the role of ethnicity in American literature, the benefits of multilingualism, the importance of interracial relationships in American culture--the different strands of his thinking always converge, in a cogent refutation of all exclusionary definitions of Americanness.--Christoph Irmscher ""Harvard Magazine"" The Werner Sollors Reader doesn't need posterity to be considered a cultural classic. These are spectacular essays, wide-ranging and shape-shifting. They courageously risk engaging with the most pressing predicaments of literary history and cultural values as they unfold in the everyday of our living and thinking. Sollors has crafted a critical voice of enduring civility to develop a cosmopolitanism of the marginalized and overlooked. At the same time, Sollors celebrates the enormous brilliance and creativity of African Americans in the US and minorities elsewhere.--Homi Bhabha, Harvard University

The Werner Sollors Reader doesn't need posterity to be considered a cultural classic. These are spectacular essays, wide-ranging and shape-shifting. They courageously risk engaging with the most pressing predicaments of literary history and cultural values as they unfold in the everyday of our living and thinking. Sollors has crafted a critical voice of enduring civility to develop a cosmopolitanism of the marginalized and overlooked. At the same time, Sollors celebrates the enormous brilliance and creativity of African Americans in the US and minorities elsewhere.--Homi Bhabha, Harvard University

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Daniel G. Williams is Professor of English Literature at Swansea University and author of Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois (2006), Black Skin, Blue Books: African Americans and Wales 1845 1945 (2012) and Wales Unchained: Literature, Politics and Identity in the American Century (2015).

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