the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury Floreani, Tracy. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2013 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations. 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. Tracy Floreani. Includes bibliographical references and index. American literature Minority authors History and criticism American fiction 20th century History and criticism Ethnicity in literature Immigrants in literature PS153.M56 F57 2013eb 810.9/920693 Floreani, Tracy. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013] x, 179 pages (DLC)17521324 9781438447704 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10767765 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10767765 CaPaEBR 121106 ebr10767765 eng