TY - BOOK AU - Floreani,Tracy TI - Fifties ethnicities: the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury AV - PS153.M56 F57 2013eb U1 - 810.9/920693 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - American literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Electronic books 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 - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10767765 ER -