Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2000. [Vol. 6.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

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permanence and temporariness, of the authoritative and the investigative and of the prescriptive and the exploratory. According to the writer the beneficiary effects of liberal pluralism initiated the rediscovery of literary works and the exploitation of the seemingly blurred and vague implications of texts. Liberal pluralism remodels the structure and our understanding of American literature and culture. Leonard Bernstein's Jewish origin and identity permeate his Kaddish-Symphony. Péter Csató considers the work as a new way of communication through which certain characteristics of the Jewish mind might be observed. The analysis proves the writer's expertise and erudition in music as he compares differences and alterations in tonality to social, historical and philosophical questions. The final part of the essay clusters around the significance of the God figure related to the eternal question of the vindication of murdering God. New dimensions of multicultural education are presented in Pál Csontos' essay. After providing a definition for ebonies ("black sounds") and quoting numerous examples to it he examines the way ebonies has become a part of political discourse. Among the several effects of the appearance of ebonies in political discourse he emphasizes the link between ebonies and Afrocentricity. What commences after Csontos' writing on ethnicity is an essay dealing with another issue on the multicultural palette which is gender related questions. The essay on hate crimes by Krisztina Danko starts with a summary of a fatal incident that caused the death of a gay student in Wyoming. The writer relates hate crimes to gender issues and describes the legal aspect of gay rights on the political agenda. She concludes that Americans project their own value judgments concerning sexuality onto gender issues. Being American and ethnicity are the main themes for Mónika Fodor's essay. She defines pluralism and then describes two processes —the first one being the social process of becoming both American and ethnic and the second process which is becoming either American or ethnic. Americanization and religion are also factors dominantly forming both an identity and a community. Judit Agnes Kádár's essay stretches the boundaries of the earlier pieces by extending the scope of observation to the Canadian social consciousness. She applies the multicultural and multivocal challenge to Canadian grand narratives. The long title itself contains a multitude 206