Contemporary commentators have observed that postmodern America is less a melting pot than a buffet table. In American Identities people of diverse ethnic, religious, social, gender, and sexual backgrounds "refuse to merge but insist on a multiplicity of well-maintained identities, " editors Robert Pack and Jay Parini explain. This sixth volume in the popular Bread Loaf Anthology series gathers more than three dozen voices who testify that there is no single American Experience, but instead a multiplicity of experiences. These poems, stories, and essays describe in occasionally stark, sometimes humorous, and often moving terms what it means to be black and American, or gay and American, or Latino and American, or Jewish and American within this society.
- ISBN10 0874517591
- ISBN13 9780874517590
- Publish Date 31 March 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Middlebury College Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 386
- Language English