03723nam 22007572 450 991078932290332120151005020622.01-107-22108-01-139-06383-91-283-11890-41-139-07623-X97866131189051-139-08306-61-139-07051-71-139-07852-61-139-08079-20-511-79162-3(CKB)3460000000002655(EBL)691960(OCoLC)729166647(SSID)ssj0000522826(PQKBManifestationID)11349591(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522826(PQKBWorkID)10528259(PQKB)10688038(UkCbUP)CR9780511791628(MiAaPQ)EBC691960(Au-PeEL)EBL691960(CaPaEBR)ebr10476533(CaONFJC)MIL311890(EXLCZ)99346000000000265520100616d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGender, race, and mourning in American modernism /Greg Forter[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2011.1 online resource (vii, 217 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-00472-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby -- 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia -- 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! -- 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms.American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold reading of canonical modernism in the United States.Gender, Race, & Mourning in American ModernismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesGender identity in literatureRace in literatureGrief in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Gender identity in literature.Race in literature.Grief in literature.813/.52093532LIT004020bisacsh18.06bclForter Greg1477512UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910789322903321Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism3752206UNINA