Floreani, Tracy.
Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / Tracy Floreani. - 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations. - 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 (e-book)
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Ethnicity in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / F57 2013eb
810.9/920693
Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / Tracy Floreani. - 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations. - 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 (e-book)
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Ethnicity in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / F57 2013eb
810.9/920693