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Essay 1 assignment: Write an essay evaluating the usefulness of the Immigrant Narrative as a model or yardstick for describing multicultural American literature and culture. Where do we go from here? Research possibilities, teaching possibilities.

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Essay 2 assignment: In readings of Bread Givers, The Exodus, and Of Plymouth Plantation, and elsewhere during the semester (e. g., Crevecoeur, the excerpt from Hunting Mr. Heartbreak), the course has attempted to analyze the USA’s dominant culture. Reviewing these texts, consider the following questions:

·        What are some of the attractions and repulsions, rewards and punishment that follow such an investigation? Why does the dominant culture tend to resist or elude analysis or even the impulse to analyze?

·        Describe the most characteristic qualities of the dominant culture. Consider attitudes toward literacy and education, intermarriage, mobility, and the family.

·        How much is the dominant culture both the same as and different from what we have otherwise studied simply as “immigrant culture?”

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