Racism and xenophobia in early twentieth-century American fiction : when a house is not a home /
""The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity". These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offer. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These hi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge research in American literature and culture.
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| Summary: | ""The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity". These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offer. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often been brought into the focus of Modernist literary criticism, though their existence in the record is clear. This book aims to discuss these chronicles, displaying, in great detail, the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded so deep both into fictional and real personas, whether they may be characters, writers, legislators, or the common people. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected so as to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm"-- |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367508678 0367508672 |