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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460239003321

Autore

Wilson Sarah <1973->

Titolo

Melting-pot modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Sarah Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8014-5941-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/3552

Soggetti

Americanization - History - 20th century

Assimilation (Sociology) in literature

Acculturation in literature

Emigration and immigration in literature

Modernism (Literature) - United States

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.