White Diaspora : The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jurca, Catherine
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
White people in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Suburban life in literature.
Segregation in literature.
Race in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Race dans la litterature.
Banlieues dans la litterature.
Segregation dans la litterature.
Vie de la banlieue dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richar
Description matérielle:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9781400824137

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