LEADER 03482 am 22007453u 450 001 9910348228003321 005 20210210063333.0 010 $a1-135-87550-2 010 $a1-135-87551-0 010 $a1-280-28179-0 010 $a9786610281794 010 $a0-203-50139-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203501399 035 $a(CKB)1000000000254135 035 $a(EBL)254377 035 $a(OCoLC)275219726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000254230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11229160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000254230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207105 035 $a(PQKB)10967769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC254377 035 $a(OCoLC)252755064 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000254135 100 $a20180706d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSurviving the crossing $e(im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen /$fJessica G. Rabin 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-79905-X 311 $a0-415-97118-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aBook 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; Index 330 $aBy examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. While these three authors have been studied in non-intersecting categories (pioneer literature, high modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance, respectively), Jessica Rabin traces their similarities, showin 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aEthnicity in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImmigrants in literature. 615 0$aEthnicity in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a813.52099287 676 $a813/.52093552 700 $aRabin$b Jessica G.$f1973-,$0873248 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910348228003321 996 $aSurviving the crossing$91949439 997 $aUNINA