Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / Tracy Floreani.
Series: SUNY series in multiethnic literaturePublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781438447698 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781438447704 (e-book)
- 810.9/920693 23
- PS153.M56 F57 2013eb
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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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