Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on the remarkable careers of four ethnic fiction writers of the 1930s (Younghill Kang, D'Arcy McNickle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Américo Paredes) Sorensen presents a new view of the history of multicultural literature in the U.S. The first part of the book situates these authors within the modernist era to provide an alternative, multicultural vision of American modernism. The second part examines the complex reception histories of these authors' works, showing how they have been claimed or rejected as ancestors for contemporary multiethnic writing. Combining the approaches of the new modernist studies and ethnic studies, the book.

Info autore

Leif Sorensen is Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA. He has published articles in Modernism/Modernity, Contemporary Literature, MELUS, Genre, American Literature, and in a book collection on the work of Kathy Acker.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Leif Sorensen
• Editore: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2016
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781349552047
• ISBN: 978-1-349-55204-7
• Numero di pagine: 254
• Illustrazioni: X, 254 p.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 23.5 cm
• Categorie: USA, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature, North America, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Twentieth Century