In Europe's Image - The Need for American Multiculturalism

Dathorne's approach is basically literary and historical, but he has also developed his argument around politics, popular culture, language, and even landscape architecture. He looks at Europe as a mental construct of philosophies and politics that both the English and European Americans identified with Greece and Rome. Dathorne shows how much of what we think of as European heritage is actually of African and/or Islamic background. He shows the founders of the U.S. to be idealistic Athenian-type elites, unlikely to allow humanity to govern as a citizenship. The book discusses the literary history of the ex-colony of America with its own special lens, showing how again and again the makers of the American myth failed to come to terms with the multicultural realities.

Table des matières

Search for the Classic Past
European Mythologies in America
New Haven Africans and New England Transcendentalists
Black Leadership and Eurocentric Ideals
Imperialism and Immigration
Eurocentrism versus Ethnocentrism
European Visitors to the United States
American Writers in Europe
Notes
Bibliography
Index

A propos de l'auteur

O. R. Dathorne

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: O. Dathorne, O. R. Dathorne
• Edition: Bloomsbury
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.10.1994
• EAN: 9780897893978
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-397-8
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; USA, Europe, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Non-Western philosophy, Geography and World Cultures: Culture