Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism
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- Synopsis
- During the 1930s, ethnic literary modernists played a crucial role in the development of what we now recognize as multiethnic literature in the United States. Presenting a new view of the history of multicultural literature, Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism focuses on the remarkable careers of four ethnic fiction writers: Younghill Kang, D'Arcy McNickle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Américo Paredes. The first part of the book situates these authors within the modernist era to provide an alternative, multicultural vision of American modernism. The second part examines the complex reception histories of these authors' works, showing how they have been claimed or rejected as ancestors for contemporary multiethnic writing. Combining the approaches of modernist studies and ethnic studies, the book presents a new model of twentieth-century American literary history.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137570192
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
- Date of Addition:
- 09/07/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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