TY - BOOK AU - Floreani,Tracy ED - Project Muse. TI - Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury T2 - SUNY series in Multiethnic Literature SN - 9781438447704 AV - PS153.M56 F57 2013 U1 - 810.9/920693 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - American literature KW - Minority authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781438447704/ ER -