Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism

Informationen zum Autor Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Klappentext An original study of Hemingway! Fitzgerald! Cather and Faulkner's ambivalence towards race and gender. "The work's strengths are the fascinating analysis of gender intersecting race and the keen scrutiny of narrative strategy. The first chapter reads The Great Gatsby as allegory of the loss of male creativity embodied in lyrical Gatsby, a style of manhood "that cannot but be lost" (15)." -- Beth Widmaier Capo,American Studies, Vol. 52, no. 3 Zusammenfassung Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. Examining works by Fitzgerald! Hemingway! Faulkner and Cather! Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby; 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia; 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!; 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms; Afterword; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Forter, Greg (University of South Carolina) Forter, Forter Greg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9781107004726
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00472-6
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, The Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, US West