02289nam 2200409 450 991047681560332120230511111211.0(CKB)5470000000566400(NjHacI)995470000000566400(EXLCZ)99547000000056640020230511d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSurviving the Crossing (im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen /Jessica G. RabinLondon, United Kingdom :Taylor & Francis,2004.1 online resource (246 pages)1-135-87546-4 Includes bibliographical references.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 -- 5. Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances -- Bibliography.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 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, showing how the dispersal of fixed identities are facilitated by the language of fiction.Emigration and immigration in literatureAmerican literatureWomen authorsEthnicity in literatureEmigration and immigration in literature.American literatureWomen authors.Ethnicity in literature.813.52093552Rabin Jessica G.1357738NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476815603321Surviving the Crossing3364374UNINA