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Strangers at Home - American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars (Hardcover, New)
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Strangers at Home - American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars (Hardcover, New)
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Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist
literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars.
This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic
writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional
notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with
modernist literary studies from the perspectives of minority
discourse, postcolonial studies, and postmodern theory, Rita
Keresztesi questions the validity of modernism's claim to the
neutrality of culture. She argues that literary modernism grew out
of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical
context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow
definition of modernism in America. With the changing racial,
ethnic, and cultural makeup of the nation during the interwar era,
literary modernism also changed its form and content. Contesting
traditional notions of literary modernism, Keresztesi examines
American modernism from an ethnic perspective in the works of
Harlem Renaissance, immigrant, and Native American writers. She
discusses such authors as Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale
Hurston, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Josephina Niggli, Mourning
Dove, D'Arcy McNickle, and John Joseph Mathews, among others.
Strangers at Home makes a persuasive argument for expanding our
understanding of the writers themselves as well as the concept of
modernism as it is currently defined. Rita Keresztesi is an
assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
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