Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury /
This book demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in mid-twentieth-century America.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | SUNY series in multiethnic literature.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Cultural narratives and American identities
- The land of plenty : American popular culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
- What's for sale : consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show
- The celluloid fantasy : negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram
- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood : narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.