The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature - Rilegato

Soto, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0817313923 ISBN 13: 9780817313920

Casa editrice: Univ of Alabama Pr, 2004

Riassunto

The Modernist Nation examines why America's modern literary movements have come to be characterized as "generations" and "renaissances," such as the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation or the Harlem, Southern, and San Francisco Renaissances. The metaphor of rebirth, Michael Soto argues, offered and continues to offer American writers a kind of shorthand for imagining American cultural history, especially as a departure from Old World (English) trappings.

Soto highlights the interracial dynamics of American literary movements, touching on authors as varied as James Weldon Johnson, Malcolm Cowley, W. E. B. DuBois, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jack Kerouac. After assessing the origins of the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance, Soto traces the rise of the "bohemian artist" narrative, and demonstrates how a polyethnic cast of writers and critics constructed American literary production in terms of symbolic rebirth.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael Soto is Assistant Professor of English and Interim Director of African American Studies at Trinity University.

Product Description:

Book by Soto Assistant Professor Michael

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0817313923
• ISBN 13: 9780817313920
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228