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Titolo: | The invention of ethnicity / / edited by Werner Sollors |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xx, 294 p |
Disciplina: | 810/.9/920692 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism |
Ethnicity in literature | |
Ethnic groups in literature | |
Minorities in literature | |
Altri autori: | SollorsWerner |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- On the Fourth of July in Sitka -- Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity -- An American Writer -- A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses -- Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade -- Defining the Race 1890-1930 -- Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self -- Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale -- Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics -- Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives -- Comping for Count Basie -- Is Ethnicity Obsolete? -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
Sommario/riassunto: | These essays chart the cultural constraints of `ethnicity' in American history and culture. Sollors' introductory essay sets the framework for the discussion of ethnicity and the individual essays cover a wide range of topics: Native American, Latin-American, historical Jewish, nineteenth-century American German, American Jewish, Italian, and Afro-American. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The invention of ethnicity |
ISBN: | 0-19-772469-8 |
0-19-802149-6 | |
1-280-44007-4 | |
1-60129-666-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825620203321 |
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