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Autore |
Japtok Martin |
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Titolo |
Growing up ethnic : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction / / by Martin Japtok |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism |
Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism |
Judaism and literature - United States |
Maturation (Psychology) in literature |
African Americans in literature |
Ethnic groups in literature |
Ethnicity in literature |
Youth in literature |
Jews in literature |
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Formato |
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 (p. [183]-195) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man; Chapter 2: Fanny Herself and Plum Bun: Art and Ethnic Solidarity; Chapter 3: Brown Girl, Brownstones and Bread Givers:Reconciling Ethnicity and Individualism; Chapter 4: Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Literary Responses; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Growing Up Ethnic examines the presence of literary similarities between African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories in the first half of the twentieth century; often these similarities exceed what could be explained by sociohistorical correspondences alone. Martin Japtok argues that these similarities result from the way both African American and Jewish American authors have conceptualized their ""ethnic situation."" The issue of ""race"" and its social |
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