Ethnic Modernism

Informationen zum Autor Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Klappentext In the first half of the 20th century! the U.S. moved to the center of global cultural production. How did African American! European immigrant! and other minority writers take part in these transformative developments? This book attempts to address this question in a series of close readings of major texts from this period. Zusammenfassung In the first half of the 20th century! the U.S. moved to the center of global cultural production. How did African American! European immigrant! and other minority writers take part in these transformative developments? This book attempts to address this question in a series of close readings of major texts from this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis * 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. Rolvaag 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 Anti-Totalitarian? * Facing the Extreme * Grand Central Terminal * Chronology * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Werner Sollors
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2008
• EAN: 9780674030916
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03091-6
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; USA, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000