Offering a new history of the emergence of multiethnic literature in the US, this book shows that ethnic writers of the Modernist era played a crucial role in how multiethnic literature developed. Sorensen discusses writers such as Younghill Kang and Zora Neale Hurston to present a new model of twentieth-century American literary history.
Offering a new history of the emergence of multiethnic literature in the US, this book shows that ethnic writers of the Modernist era played a crucial...
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 Americo 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...
Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on the remarkabl...
