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Ethnic modernism and the making of US literary multiculturalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sorensen, Leif, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Minorities > United States > Intellectual life.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
American literature.
American literature > Minority authors.
Minorities > Intellectual life.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: untimely ancestors
  • Part I: Constrained emergence
  • Thwarted desire
  • Stifled voice
  • Failed alternatives
  • Impossible authorship
  • Part II: Recovering untimeliness
  • Interchapter: desperately seeking untimeliness
  • Exploding the hurston boom
  • Recovering negativity
  • The threat of un-recovery
  • The challenge of non-recovery
  • Conclusion: multiculturalism's unfinished work.