Fifties Ethnicities [electronic resource] : The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury / Tracy Floreani.
Material type: TextSeries: SUNY series in Multiethnic LiteraturePublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9781438447704
- 810.9/920693 23
- PS153.M56 F57 2013
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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