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Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism (Hardcover)
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Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism (Hardcover)
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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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