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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961585103321

Autore

Kent Alicia A

Titolo

African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism / / by A. Kent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611362621

9781281362629

128136262X

9780230605107

0230605109

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/005

Soggetti

United States - History

History, Modern

America - Literatures

Literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Culture - Study and teaching

US History

Modern History

North American Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Cultural Studies

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 (p. [189]-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- African Americans: moving from caricatures to creators, Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston -- Native Americans: moving from Primitive to Postmodern, Mourning Dove and D'Arcy McNickle -- Jewish Americans: moving from exile to authorship, Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical



dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon.