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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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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.
Subjects
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