LEADER 05030nam 22009735 450 001 9910781576003321 005 20220131184307.0 010 $a1-283-33973-0 010 $a9786613339737 010 $a1-4008-2413-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824137 035 $a(CKB)2550000000065788 035 $a(EBL)804869 035 $a(OCoLC)768731929 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271273 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271273 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10280576 035 $a(PQKB)10178408 035 $a(DE-B1597)447206 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881507 035 $a(OCoLC)979623775 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC804869 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000065788 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhite Diaspora $eThe Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel /$fCatherine Jurca 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-05735-4 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs --$tCHAPTER TWO. Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb --$tCHAPTER THREE. Mildred Pierce's Interiors --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Native Son's Trespasses --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel --$tEPILOGUE: Same As It Ever Was (More or Less) --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aThis is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's Native Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora. Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: "the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters. 606 $aAmerican fiction - 20th century - 606 $aAmerican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aSegregation in literature 606 $aSuburban life in literature 606 $aSuburbs in literature 606 $aWhite people in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$y20th century 606 $aSuburban life in literature 606 $aSegregation in literature 606 $aSuburbs in literature 606 $aWhite people in literature 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 4$aAmerican fiction - 20th century -. 615 4$aAmerican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. 615 4$aRace in literature. 615 4$aRace in literature. 615 4$aSegregation in literature. 615 4$aSuburban life in literature. 615 4$aSuburbs in literature. 615 4$aWhite people in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aSuburban life in literature 615 0$aSegregation in literature 615 0$aSuburbs in literature 615 0$aWhite people in literature 615 0$aRace in literature 615 7$aAmerican Literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a813 676 $a813.509321733 676 $a813/.509321733 700 $aJurca$b Catherine$01033768 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781576003321 996 $aWhite Diaspora$93828837 997 $aUNINA