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Ethnic modernism / Werner Sollors.
- Title
- Ethnic modernism / Werner Sollors.
- Author
- Sollors, Werner
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 324 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge history of American literature.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) > United States
- American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Ethnicity in literature
- Race in literature
- Immigrants in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Note
- "Originally published in The Cambridge History of American Literature, volume 6 : Prose writing, 1910-1950, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-299) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Gertrude Stein and "Negro sunshine" -- Ethnic lives and lifelets -- Ethnic themes, modern themes -- Mary Antin: progressive optimism against odds -- Who is "American"? -- American languages -- "All the past we leave behind"? Ole E. Rølvaag and the immigrant trilogy -- Modernism, ethnic labeling, and the quest for wholeness: Jean Toomer's new American race -- Freud, Marx, hard-boiled -- Hemingway spoken here -- Henry Roth: ethnicity, modernity, and modernism -- Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! The clock, the salesman, and the breast -- Immigrant literature and totalitarianism -- Was modernism antitotalitarian? -- Facing the extreme -- Grand Central Terminal.
- ISBN
- 9780674030916 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008007143
- OCLC
- 193910240
- SCSB-12409320
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library