Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / Tracy Floreani.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in multiethnic literaturePublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438447704 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/920693 23
LOC classification:
  • PS153.M56 F57 2013eb
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Contents:
Introduction: Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty: American popular 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 narratives of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty: American popular 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 narratives of 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.

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