Format:
1 online resource (235 pages)
ISBN:
9780203501399
,
9781135875466
,
9781135875503
,
9781135875510
Series Statement:
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Content:
chapter 1 Introduction: A Sense of Selves -- chapter 2 “The Peculiar Combination of Elements Long Familiar”: Willa Cather -- chapter 3 “Fiction Was Another Way of Telling the Truth”: Gertrude Stein -- chapter 4 “The Mixedness of Things”: Nella Larsen -- chapter 5 Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances.
Content:
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, showing how the dispersal of fixed identities are facilitated by the language of fiction.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415971188
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138799059
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415971188
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9780203501399
