Making America: Editing A New Literary History of America

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Talk with Prof. Dr. Werner Sollors, Harvard University.

Sollors has recently published “A New Literary Histor y of America”, offering 219 essays, which describe 219 epic moments of change in American Literature and Culture.

Written by academics, activists, philosophers and artists, those essays are free of complicated academic jargon but nevertheless get right to the point.

When Ishmael Reed writes about the relations between races in Huckleberry Finn, when Michael Tolkin thinks about the language of the Alcoholics Anonymous and when Camille Paglia meditates on Tennesee Williams breaking taboos, American literature is rediscovered, maybe even reinvented.

Introduction by Prof. Horst Tonn, University of Tübingen.

- In Kooperation mit der US-Botschaft und der Abteilung für Amerikanistik der Universität Tübingen