Format:
1 online resource (viii, 196 p.)
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ill
ISBN:
9780198036647
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0198036647
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Content:
Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt
Content:
Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures?
Note:
Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index
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Playing the races
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Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Ethnische Gruppe
;
Geschichte 1870-1900
;
USA
;
Karikatur
;
Literatur
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1870-1900
;
USA
;
Ethnische Gruppe
;
Humoristische Darstellung
;
Geschichte 1870-1900
;
USA
;
Karikatur
;
Literatur
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1870-1900
;
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