Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism
"American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that m...
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| Ձևաչափ: | Էլեկտրոնային էլ․ գիրք |
| Լեզու: | անգլերեն |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Առցանց հասանելիություն: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Չկան պիտակներ, Եղեք առաջինը, ով նշում է այս գրառումը!
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| Ամփոփում: | "American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold new reading of canonical modernism in the United States"-- |
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| Ֆիզիկական նկարագրություն: | vii, 217 p. |
| Մատենագիտություն: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |