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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255233003321

Autore

Sorensen Leif

Titolo

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism [[electronic resource] /] / by Leif Sorensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-57019-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

810.98

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature—History and criticism

America—Literatures

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary History

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: untimely ancestors -- Part I: Constrained emergence -- Thwarted desire -- Stifled voice -- Failed alternatives -- Impossible authorship -- Part II: Recovering untimeliness -- Interchapter: desperately seeking untimeliness -- Exploding the hurston boom -- Recovering negativity -- The threat of un-recovery -- The challenge of non-recovery -- Conclusion: multiculturalism's unfinished work.

Sommario/riassunto

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on the remarkable careers of four ethnic fiction writers of the 1930s (Younghill Kang, D'Arcy McNickle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Américo Paredes) Sorensen presents a new view of the history of multicultural literature in the U.S. 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 the new modernist studies and



ethnic studies, the book.