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Article: From new criticism to cultural pluralism: the southern legacy of Marshall McLuhan.(Idols of Otherness: The Rhetoric and Reality of Multiculturalism)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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In contrast to those theorists who imagine nations as "melting pots" -- cauldrons of diversity in which cultural and personal differences assimilate and fuse into stable, unified national identities -- multiculturalists seek to recover and represent the myriad contingencies that destabilize all master narratives of identity and nationality in an increasingly postmodern, postnational world. In the academy, multiculturalists and cultural pluralists are frequently associated with such rhetorical liberation movements as postcolonial criticism, movements whose practitioners tend to blur the distinctions between pedagogy and activism. Homi Bhabha, for example, one of the most ...