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Rabin Jessica G. <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Surviving the crossing : (im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen / / Jessica G. Rabin |
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2005 |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-87550-2 |
1-135-87551-0 |
1-280-28179-0 |
9786610281794 |
0-203-50139-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Emigration and immigration in literature |
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Immigrants in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
Sex role in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: A Sense of Selves; 2. "The Peculiar Combination of Elements Long Familiar": Willa Cather; 3. "Fiction Was Another Way of Telling the Truth": Gertrude Stein; 4. "The Mixedness of Things": Nella Larsen; Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances; Afterword: "A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven"; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin |
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explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. While these three authors have been studied in non-intersecting categories (pioneer literature, high modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance, respectively), Jessica Rabin traces their similarities, showin |
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