Ethnic Modernism
WW Norton · Print & ebook · December 2, 2008
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- Who it’s for
- Werner Sollors examines how minority writers shaped American modernism and its multicultural self-awareness.
- Themes
- Minority writers and modernism, Multicultural American cultural history, Prose form and close reading
- Genres
- Race & Culture in Literature, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Black Lit Crit
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In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. At the same time, technologies of dissemination evolved rapidly, and versions of modernism emerged as dominant art forms. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these developments that also transformed the United States, giving it an increasingly multicultural self-awareness?
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This book attempts to address this question in a series of innovative and engaging close readings of major texts by Gertrude Stein, Mary Antin, Jean Toomer, O. E. Rölvaag, Nathan Asch, Henry Roth, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Pietro di Donato, Jerre Mangione, John Hersey, and Leo Szilard, as well as briefer examinations of many other authors and works, against the background of international political developments, the rise of modernism in the visual arts, and the ascendancy of Ernest Hemingway as a model for prose writers. In many of Werner Sollors’s sensitive readings, single sentences and paragraphs serve as the representative formal units of prose works, while throughout Ethnic Modernism the trolley (now a cute-seeming object of nostalgia) emerges with surprising frequency as a central thematic emblem of modernity.
Minority Writers, Modernism
Werner Sollors examines how minority writers shaped American modernism and its multicultural self-awareness.
Come here for
- Close readings of major texts by African American and immigrant writers
- Connections to visual modernism and international politics
Expect
- Single sentences and paragraphs as units of prose analysis
- The trolley as a recurring emblem of modernity
Where it sits
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 89% |
|---|---|
| Race & Culture in Literature | 78% |
| Black Lit Crit | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century America
- American Lit Crit
- Black Lit Crit
- Authors
- Werner Sollors
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- December 2, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Minority writers and modernism · Multicultural American cultural history · Prose form and close reading
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century America