Fifties Ethnicities
Floreani, Tracy.
Fifties Ethnicities The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury / [electronic resource] : Tracy Floreani. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - SUNY series in Multiethnic Literature .
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.
9781438447704
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / F57 2013
810.9/920693
Fifties Ethnicities The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury / [electronic resource] : Tracy Floreani. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - SUNY series in Multiethnic Literature .
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.
9781438447704
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / F57 2013
810.9/920693