The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature - Couverture souple

Soto, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817354670 ISBN 13 : 9780817354671

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Modernist Nation examines why America's modern literary movements have come to be characterized as "generations" and "renaissances," such as the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation or the Harlem, Southern, and San Francisco Renaissances. The metaphor of rebirth, Michael Soto argues, offered and continues to offer American writers a kind of shorthand for imagining American cultural history, especially as a departure from Old World (English) trappings.

Soto highlights the interracial dynamics of American literary movements, touching on authors as varied as James Weldon Johnson, Malcolm Cowley, W. E. B. DuBois, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jack Kerouac. After assessing the origins of the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance, Soto traces the rise of the "bohemian artist" narrative, and demonstrates how a polyethnic cast of writers and critics constructed American literary production in terms of symbolic rebirth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Soto is Assistant Professor of English and Interim Director of African American Studies at Trinity University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817354670
• ISBN 13: 9780817354671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible