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African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism / by A. Kent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kent, Alicia A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History, Modern.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- US History.
- Modern History.
- North American Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- US History.
- Modern History.
- North American Literature.
- Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- African Americans: moving from caricatures to creators, Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston
- Native Americans: moving from Primitive to Postmodern, Mourning Dove and D'Arcy McNickle
- Jewish Americans: moving from exile to authorship, Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611362621
- 9781281362629
- 128136262X
- 9780230605107
- 0230605109
- OCLC:
- 567827743
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