Fifties Ethnicities : The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury /

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This book demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in mid-twentieth-century America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Floreani, Tracy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
American literature > Minority authors.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Immigrants dans la litterature.
Ethnicite dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs issus des minorites > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

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