Аннотация:In 1990 The Heath Anthology of Literature was published under the sponsorship of the Reconstructing Literature project (RAL) of the Feminist Press. Inspired by the Civil Rights movements, the RAL project attempted to redress the limited, exclusionary conception of American represented in most university curricula, syllabi, and anthologies, and to affirm the literature classroom as a potential site of social and political change (Lauter, Cultural 180). The Heath, as it has come to be called, was designed to represent more accurately the diversity of literature and the US cultural mosaic, past and present, than other existing literature anthologies. The deliberate and intensely reflective intellectual and emotional processes guiding inclusion decisions are described in the preface to the first edition of the Heath and in subsequent published pieces by Paul Lauter, a key player in the Heath 's publication, and indeed in multicultural literary studies generally (see Cultural, Implications, and Reconstructing).
