In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved
from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. At
the same time, technologies of dissemination evolved rapidly, and
versions of modernism emerged as dominant art forms. How did
African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers
take part in these developments that also transformed the United
States, giving it an increasingly multicultural self-awareness?
This book attempts to address this question in a series of
innovative and engaging close readings of major texts by Gertrude
Stein, Mary Antin, Jean Toomer, O. E. Rolvaag, Nathan Asch, Henry
Roth, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Pietro di Donato, Jerre
Mangione, John Hersey, and Leo Szilard, as well as briefer
examinations of many other authors and works, against the
background of international political developments, the rise of
modernism in the visual arts, and the ascendancy of Ernest
Hemingway as a model for prose writers.
In many of Werner Sollors's sensitive readings, single
sentences and paragraphs serve as the representative formal units
of prose works, while throughout "Ethnic Modernism" the trolley
(now a cute-seeming object of nostalgia) emerges with surprising
frequency as a central thematic emblem of modernity.
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