Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism

Leif Sorensen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2016 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-58476-2 (ISBN)

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Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on the remarkable careers of four ethnic fiction writers of the 1930s (Younghill Kang, D'Arcy McNickle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Américo Paredes) Sorensen presents a new view of the history of multicultural literature in the U.S. The first part of the book situates these authors within the modernist era to provide an alternative, multicultural vision of American modernism. The second part examines the complex reception histories of these authors' works, showing how they have been claimed or rejected as ancestors for contemporary multiethnic writing. Combining the approaches of the new modernist studies and ethnic studies, the book.

Leif Sorensen is Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA. He has published articles in Modernism/Modernity, Contemporary Literature, MELUS, Genre, American Literature, and in a book collection on the work of Kathy Acker.

Introduction: Untimely Ancestors
PART I: CONSTRAINED EMERGENCE
1. Thwarted Desire
2. Stifled Voice
3. Failed Alternatives
4: Impossible Authorship
PART II: RECOVERING UNTIMELINESS
Interchapter: Desperately Seeking Untimeliness
5. Exploding the Hurston Boom
6. Recovering Negativity
7. The Threat of Un-Recovery
8. The Challenge of Non-Recovery
Conclusion: Multiculturalism's Unfinished Work

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2016
Zusatzinfo	X, 254 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-58476-9 / 1137584769
ISBN-13	978-1-137-58476-2 / 9781137584762
Zustand	Neuware