Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury /

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Autore principale: Floreani, Tracy
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Serie:SUNY series in multiethnic literature
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Sommario:
  • Introduction: Cultural narratives and American identities
  • The land of plenty: American popular culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
  • What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show
  • The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram
  • Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.