October 30, 1998
The Blind Spot of Multiculturalism: America's Invisible Literature
No matter where we stand in the canon wars, we assume that we know the outlines of American literature. But do we?
Consider the following excerpt from an American novel of the 1850s, in which the narrator comments: "A reliable writer from ancient Greece tells us that women once lived on the island of Lesbos who did not permit any man to touch them, since a whim of nature had given them the gift of being
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