03482 am 22007453u 450 991034822800332120210210063333.01-135-87550-21-135-87551-01-280-28179-097866102817940-203-50139-X10.4324/9780203501399 (CKB)1000000000254135(EBL)254377(OCoLC)275219726(SSID)ssj0000254230(PQKBManifestationID)11229160(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000254230(PQKBWorkID)10207105(PQKB)10967769(MiAaPQ)EBC254377(OCoLC)252755064(EXLCZ)99100000000025413520180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSurviving the crossing (im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen /Jessica G. RabinNew York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (201 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-79905-X 0-415-97118-7 Includes bibliographical references.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; IndexBy 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 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, showinLiterary criticism and cultural theory.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEmigration and immigration in literatureWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismImmigrants in literatureEthnicity in literatureSex role in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Emigration and immigration in literature.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Immigrants in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Sex role in literature.813.52099287813/.52093552Rabin Jessica G.1973-,873248FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910348228003321Surviving the crossing1949439UNINA