Cargando…

White Diaspora : the Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel.

This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative-...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jurca, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richar
Descripción Física:1 online resource (247 pages)
ISBN:9781400824137
1400824133
1283339730
9781283339735