Surviving the crossing : (im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen / / Jessica G. Rabin
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| Autore: |
Rabin Jessica G. <1973-, >
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| Titolo: |
Surviving the crossing : (im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen / / Jessica G. Rabin
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.52099287 |
| 813/.52093552 | |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Emigration and immigration in literature | |
| Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century | |
| American literature - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| Immigrants in literature | |
| Ethnicity in literature | |
| Sex role in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, showin |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Surviving the crossing |
| ISBN: | 1-135-87550-2 |
| 1-135-87551-0 | |
| 1-280-28179-0 | |
| 9786610281794 | |
| 0-203-50139-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910348228003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.