List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Schwarz, Braun, und Beige: : Towards Cosmopolitan Particularism Daniel G. Williams Part I. Terms and Definitions 1. The Invention of Ethnicity 2. Race and Ethnicity Part II. American Literature Overviews 3. Between Consent and Descent: Studying Ethnic Literature in the USA 4. Typology and Ethnogenesis 5.

Ethnic Modernism Readings 6. Edward Taylor 7. Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson 8. Hemingway and American Style 9. Richard Rodriguez's Autobiographical Writing Part III. African American Literature Overview 10. The Wright Era: Native Son and the African American Novel Readings 11. Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition 12.

Adrienne Kennedy and Tragedy 13. Teju Cole's Open City and Cosmopolitanism Part IV. Jewish American Literature Overview 14. Assimilation and Dissimilation in Jewish American Prose Writing, 1900-1950 Readings 15. Mary Antin's The Promised Land 16. Henry Roth's Call It Sleep Part V. Multilingualism Overview 17. The Blind Spot of Multiculturalism: America's Invisible Literature Readings 18.

Non-English American Short Stories 19. German-Language Literature about the United States, and German-American Writing Part VI. Interracialism Overview 20. Can Rabbits Have Interracial Sex? Readings 21. The Curse of Ham 22. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings 23. Incest and Miscegenation Part VII. World War II and after in Germany Overview 24.

Before Success Readings 25. "Better to Die by Them than for Them": Carl Schmitt Reads "Benito Cereno" 26. "Everybody Gets Fragebogened Sooner or Later": The Denazification Questionnaire as Cultural Text 27. A Child at Bergen-Belsen: A Photograph from 1945 Index.