Transnationalism and American serial fiction
By: edited by Patricia Okker
Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature -- 16
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780415888868; 9780203804742
Subjects: Serialized fiction; Minority authors; American fiction; History and criticism; Transnationalism in literature; Minorities in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the transnational serial / Patricia Okker; title: Caught between continents: the local and the transatlantic in the French-language serial fiction of New Orleans' Le courrier de la Louisiane, 1843-1845 / Clint Bruce; title: Tracking the first Latino novel: un matrimonio como hay muchos (1849) and transnational serial fiction / Kirsten Silva Gruesz; title: Mobility and resistance in antebellum African American serialized fiction / Jean Lee Cole; title: Prose pictures of kleindeutschland: German-language local color serials of the late nineteenth century / Peter Conolly-Smith; title: Escapism and entertainment: serialized fiction in Swedish-American newspapers / Ulf Jonas Bjork; title: "The stimulus of books and tales": Pauline Hopkins's serial novels for the colored American magazine / Rachel Ihara; title: Bernardino Ciambelli's misteri di harlem: an example of serialized fiction in the Italian American press / Benedicte Deschamps; title: Dream or reality?: Polish American serial fiction during the cultural transition, 1900-1939 / Danuta Romaniuk; title: An editor writes for his subscribers: a Norwegian American serialized trilogy, 1919-1922; title: The pregnant bride from Suffolk Street: intraethnic class conflict in a Yiddish serial novel (1931) / Ellen Kellman; title: Piecing together a "binocular vision": serial fiction and Chinese American identity in the early Cold War / Wen Jin.