Inaugural Lecture
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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.