UID:
edocfu_9959148385702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (201 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-87550-2
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1-135-87551-0
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1-280-28179-0
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9786610281794
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0-203-50139-X
Serie:
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Inhalt:
By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. While these three authors have been studied in non-intersecting categories (pioneer literature, high modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance, respectively), Jessica Rabin traces their similarities, showin
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: A Sense of Selves; 2. "The Peculiar Combination of Elements Long Familiar": Willa Cather; 3. "Fiction Was Another Way of Telling the Truth": Gertrude Stein; 4. "The Mixedness of Things": Nella Larsen; Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances; Afterword: "A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-138-79905-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-97118-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203501399
