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By tracing the melting-pot impulse toward merging and cross-fertilization through the writings of Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein, as well as through the autobiography, sociology, and social commentary of their era, Sarah Wilson makes a new connection between the...

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Main Author: Wilson, Sarah, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Émigration et immigration dans la litterature.
Acculturation dans la litterature.
Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la litterature.
Americanisation > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Modernism (Literature)
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Americanization.
American literature.
Acculturation in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Americanization > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The melting pot : assimilation to one another
  • Henry James in the "intellectual pot-au-feu"
  • James Weldon Johnson's integrationist chameleonism
  • Recollection, reform, and "broken time" in Willa Cather
  • Gertrude Stein and "individual anything"
  • Afterword : melting-pot histories of the present.

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