African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism
Hardcover – Illustrated, July 24, 2007
Palgrave Macmillan · Hardcover · July 24, 2007
This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon.
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- Genres
- Race & Culture in Literature, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, Jewish Literary Criticism
- Published
- Palgrave Macmillan, July 24, 2007
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This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon.
Where it sits
| Race & Culture in Literature | 48% |
|---|---|
| Jewish Literary Criticism | 40% |
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- History
- Creative Writing
- Authors
- A. Kent, Alicia A. Kent
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- July 24, 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
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- History