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Growing up ethnic [[electronic resource] ] : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction / / by Martin Japtok



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Autore: Japtok Martin Visualizza persona
Titolo: Growing up ethnic [[electronic resource] ] : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction / / by Martin Japtok Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
Disciplina: 813.5209896073
Soggetto topico: American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism
Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism
Judaism and literature - United States
Maturation (Psychology) in literature
African Americans in literature
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Youth in literature
Jews in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-195) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man; Chapter 2: Fanny Herself and Plum Bun: Art and Ethnic Solidarity; Chapter 3: Brown Girl, Brownstones and Bread Givers:Reconciling Ethnicity and Individualism; Chapter 4: Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Literary Responses; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Growing Up Ethnic examines the presence of literary similarities between African American and Jewish American coming-of-age stories in the first half of the twentieth century; often these similarities exceed what could be explained by sociohistorical correspondences alone. Martin Japtok argues that these similarities result from the way both African American and Jewish American authors have conceptualized their ""ethnic situation."" The issue of ""race"" and its social repercussions certainly defy any easy comparisons. However, the fact that the ethnic situations are far from identical in the
Titolo autorizzato: Growing up ethnic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-594-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777888703321
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