Ethnic modernisms : Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of dislocation / Delia Caparoso Konzett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konzett, Delia Caparoso.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhys, Jean.

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

History.

Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Yezierska, Anzia.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.

Rhys, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.

African Americans in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Expatriation in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 202 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Ania Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural "ethnic identity" often highlighted in the studies of these writers and argues that all three writers are better understood as ironic narrators of diaspora and movement and as avant-garde modernists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-195) and index.

ISBN:

0312293453

OCLC:

49719276