[Review of] Magdalena J. Zaborowska, ed. Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism

Authors

Phillipa Kafka

Orginal Publication Date

1998

Journal Title

Ethnic Studies Review

Volume

21

Issue

esr/vol21/iss1

First Page

150

Last Page

152

Comments

The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference Perspectives and Retrospectives

Abstract

The editor of this text, Magdalene J. Zaborowska of Aarhus University, is a respected feminist specialist in ethnic American studies. In her introduction she provides readers with an admirably concise overview of the history of the multicultural movement and the current state of the recent multicultural wars over curriculum, literature, and the canon in the United States. Zaborowska chose the essays in this anthology because they focus on the multicultural reality that always has existed in the United States rather than on monolithic "essentialist representations of history and national identity" characteristic of previous American literary history.

Rights

​Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1998