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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Floreani, Tracy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
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.