Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism /

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"American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'fe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forter, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Gender identity in literature.
Race in literature.
Grief in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Chagrin dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Gender identity in literature
Grief in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Race in literature
Amerikaans.
Bellettrie.
Mannelijkheid.
Sekseverschillen.
Modernism > United States.
American fiction > History and criticism > 20th century.
Gender > Literature.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby
  • 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia
  • 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!
  • 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms.

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