Surviving the Crossing: (Im)Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen

ISBN-13: 9781138799059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str.

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Opis

Jessica Rabin explores the ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. She examines the fiction of three women modernists and traces their similarities, showing how the dispersal of fixed identities are facilitated by the language of fiction.

Recenzje

"[Rabin's] study is ultimately worthy of praise; it aptly points the way toward new forms of scholarship that attempt to push on the boundaries of identity-based literary categorization." -- Matthew Lavin, University of Iowa, Western American Literature

Spis treści

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  5. Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances  Bibliography

O autorze

Jessica Rabin is Associate Professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College. Her teaching and research interests include modernism, ethnic American literature, and women's studies.