Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at...... more

Werner Sollors’ African American Writing takes a fresh look at what used to be called "Negro literature." The essays...... more

the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web...... more

Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and...... more

many of Werner Sollors’s sensitive readings, single sentences and paragraphs serve as the representative formal units of...... more

A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A sl... more

A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A sl... more

An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigr... more

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and ... more

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and ... more

lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors....... more

often confused or conflated in literature, making miscegenation appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these...... more

, Norwegian American, and Spanish American writers, Werner Sollors here presents a fuller view of multilingualism as a historical...... more

of Ham" when the Biblical text makes no reference to skin color at all? Werner Sollors examines these questions and...... more

Some of the most original thinkers explain popular theories of ethnicity--pluralism, migration, tran... more

The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the Unit... more

Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time...... more

amazing vitality. Werner Sollors’s new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and...... more

The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the Unit... more

ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one...... more

ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one...... more

American literature is not only more than Hawthorne and Poe; it is more than English. Long before th... more

Werner Sollors African American Writing takes a fresh look at what used to be called Negro literature. The essays...... more

For the centennial of its first publication: a new edition of a seminal work on the American immigra... more

Sollors s insightful introduction, explanatory annotations, and twenty-four photographs and illustrations. Contexts connects...... more

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding ... more

Amerikastudien / American Studies, edited by Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors (both at Harvard University), takes stock of...... more

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding ... more

are indebted to Werner Sollors and Jamaica Kincaid for providing us with a critical lens for the journey Dumas has created...... more

More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial p... more

Rejecting his era’s genteel hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing," Charles W. Chesn... more

An essential collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights. Introduction by Werner Sollors Adrienne...... more

In the glory days of high modernist formalism it was anathema to speak about the content of a work o... more