The forces of multiculturalism that have shaken American life since the late 1980s have also transformed the study of American literature. Professor Bush rehearses the trajectory of that turbulence in a sympathetic but not unqualified account, and addresses the question of why, when shaping a national purpose has been the agenda of so much of America's literature, today in literary circles to speak of an American voice constitutes an invitation to a brawl.
- ISBN10 0199513937
- ISBN13 9780199513932
- Publish Date March 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 24
- Language English