Fifties Ethnicities The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury / Tracy Floreani.

Author/creator Floreani, Tracy
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Descriptionx, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesSUNY series in Multiethnic Literature
Contents Introduction: Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty: American mass 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 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012040583
ISBN9781438447698 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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