Floreani Fifties Ethnicities

The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4770-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Floreani, Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
Cultural Narratives and American Identities

2. The Land of Plenty
American Mass Culture and the Literary Immigrant in C. Y. Lee’s The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

3. What’s for Sale
Consumer Fantasy, American Women, and Social Mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha and the I Love Lucy Show

4. The Celluloid Fantasy
Negotiating the Ethnic Male Star Image in William Saroyan’s Rock Wagram

5. Leaving the Dark Room in a Lighter Mood
Narrating Invisibility in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Floreani is Professor of English at Oklahoma City University.