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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-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jurca, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; WHITE DIASPORA; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs; CHAPTER TWO; Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb; CHAPTER THREE; Mildred Pierce's Interiors; CHAPTER FOUR; Native Son's Trespasses; CHAPTER FIVE; Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel; EPILOGUE; Same As It Ever Was (More or Less); NOTES; INDEX. 
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