Blurb: «In March 2015 a group of experts from four continents and a wide range of disciplines met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in Mulhouse, France, and Basle, Switzerland. Guided by Swiss cultural and literary theorist Sami Ludwig, and deliberately migrating back and forth across a political border in the heart of Europe, they not only listened to Reed and discussed his work but looked more widely at the different meanings assigned to “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. American Multiculturalism in Context: Views from at Home and Abroad brings together their reflections.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………………………… xi
Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………. xiii
Sämi Ludwig (UHA Mulhouse, France)
Aesthetics, Literature, the Arts: Theoretical Beginnings
Multiculturalism as a Challenge to Aesthetic Theory ……………………………. 3
Natalia Vysotska (Kiev National Linguistic University, Ukraine)
Multiculturalism versus Inequality: A False Opposition ……………………… 15
Meili Steele (University of South Carolina, U.S.A.)
Democratic Doxa: Toward a Genealogy of Typicality in American
Nationalist Literature ……………………………………………………………………… 33
Christopher G. Diller (Berry College, GA, U.S.A.)
Minority Literature
Arab Americans: The Example of Naomi Shihab Nye ………………………… 51
Bouchra Bouterra and Toufik Lachouri (Université 20 août 1955, Skikda,
Algeria)
‘D’ici et d’ailleurs ’: Hybridity, Double Standards and the Western
Arab-Muslim Woman …………………………………………………………………….. 63
Rim Khaled (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
Ex/tension Of/In ‘A Nation Peopled by the World’: Re-evaluating
Kaleidoscopic Feasts in Arab American and Asian American Texts …….. 85
Sihem Arfaoui (ISSH University of Jendouba, Tunisia, and Northern
Borders University, KSA)
Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest: Chang-rae Lee
and Bich Minh Nguyen…………………………………………………………………… 99
Sheng-mei Ma (Michigan State University, U.S.A.)
Transnationalism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ……………………… 113
Fernando Valerio-Holguín (Colorado State University, U.S.A.)
Straddling Worlds: A Comparative Study of the Multicultural
Experiences of Anurag Mathur and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie……….. 121
Arpa Ghosh (Vivekananda College for Women, Kolkata, India)
On Ishmael Reed
Multiculturalizing America: Ishmael Reed and the Cultural Mosaic …… 131
Wendy Hayes-Jones (Swansea Metropolitan University, U.K.)
The First Rainbow Coalition and the End of Multi-cultural Politics
in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo …………………………………………………… 145
Stephen Casmier (St. Louis University, U.S.A.)
Didn’t I Tell You?: The Hoodoo Conjurer of Japanese by Spring ………. 165
Yuqing Lin (China University of Political Science and Law,
Beijing, China)
The New Irony of Ishmael Reed against the New Racism of Postracial
America ……………………………………………………………………………………… 177
Jiří Šalamoun (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Jazz Musicians as Pioneer Multi-Culturalists, the Co-Optation of Them,
and the Reason Jazz Survives ………………………………………………………… 189
Ishmael Reed (writer, publisher, activist, Oakland, U.S.A.)
Poetry
Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim: Voicing the Integral Divide:
Transcending Suffering by Reshaping American History and Language … 203
Jennifer K. Dick (UHA Mulhouse, France)
By Tennessee Reed ………………………………………………………………………. 221
(editor, writer, Oakland, U.S.A.)
“The Avalanche of Sils im Engadin”
“Mulhouse, France”
American Multiculturalism in Context vii
By Ishmael Reed ………………………………………………………………………….. 225
(writer, publisher, activist, Oakland, U.S.A.)
“Eavesdropping on the Gods”
By V. Jean Tahdooahnippah ………………………………………………………….. 231
(Comanche Nation, U.S.A.)
“The Freshman”
“Haskell”
“White Indians”
“The Question”
“Together Separately”
Beyond Literature: Dance, Art, Tradition and Commodification
Suzushi Hanayagi at Mulhouse ……………………………………………………… 239
Carla Blank (dancer, director, writer, Oakland, U.S.A.)
Multiculturalism in Art: The African American Tradition Continues ….. 261
Paul von Blum (UC Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
Multiculturalism in Color: Zuni Colors and the Non-Native American
Art Market ………………………………………………………………………………….. 273
Charlaine Ostmann (UHA Mulhouse, France)
Multicultural or Destitute Hawai’i? Re-visioning the Symbolism
of the Aloha Shirt ………………………………………………………………………… 281
Roxane Hughes (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Multicultural Education
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Critical Pedagogy and Critical Literacy
in Education ………………………………………………………………………………… 303
M. Kamel Igoudjil (American University in Washington, DC, U.S.A.)
Identity Politics in the ESL Classroom ……………………………………………. 317
Amanda de Varona and Saghar Leslie Naghib (University of Miami,
U.S.A.)
Migration and Ethnic History
Guests or Comrades? The Rights of Migrants in the Workplace ………… 335
Edward Mortimer (CMG Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford;
Senior Program Advisor, Salzburg Global Seminar)
The Latino Condition: Understanding Multiculturalism and Pan-Latino
Ethnicity in the USA ……………………………………………………………………. 347
Marc S. Rodriguez (Portland State University, U.S.A.)
Bricolage of Protest: Unveiling the Multicultural Dimensions
of the Chicano Movement through its Murals of Protest ……………………. 371
Atalie Gerhard (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany)
Yiddish and American Multiculturalism: A ‘Postvernacular’
Language on the Margin ……………………………………………………………….. 387
Astrid Starck-Adler (UHA Mulhouse, France)
American Politics
Multiculturalism in the United States: A fait accompli? ……………………. 413
Christèle Le Bihan (Université de Poitiers, France)
American Multiculturalism in the 21st Century: Achieving Domestic
and International Goals in a Globalized World ………………………………… 435
Saïd Ouaked (Université de Limoges, France)
The Evolution of Political Multiculturalism in the United States:
Barack Obama, Affirmative Action, and the Affordable Care Act ………. 449
Lea Stephan (Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France)
Other Multiculturalisms
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Multiculturalism in Mulhouse ……………. 471
Evelyne Troxler (Université Populaire, Mulhouse, France)
André Weckmann and the Influence of African American Culture
on Modern Alsatian Poetry ……………………………………………………………. 477
Peter André Bloch (UHA Mulhouse, France)
American Multiculturalism in Context ix
Managing Cultural Diversity: Multiculturalism and Citizenship
in America and Algeria…………………………………………………………………. 491
Abderrezak Dourari (Algiers 2 University, Director of CNPLET,
Ministry of Education, Algeria)
From Snowball to Pomegranate Seeds: The Troubled Position
of Han within Chinese Multiculturalism …………………………………………. 507
Chang Liu (Jilin University Institute for Chinese Studies, China)
Contributors ………………………………………………………………………………… 519