TY - BOOK AU - Forter,Greg ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism AV - PS310.M57 F67 2011eb U1 - 813/.52093532 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - United States KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Grief in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby; 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia; 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!; 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms; Afterword; Index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold new reading of canonical modernism in the United States"-- UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10476533 ER -