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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463030203321

Autore

Floreani Tracy

Titolo

Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / / Tracy Floreani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-4384-4770-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in multiethnic literature

Disciplina

810.9/920693

Soggetti

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Ethnicity in literature

Immigrants in literature

Electronic books.

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: Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty: American popular culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.