Melting-pot modernism
By: Sarah Wilson.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780801448164
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature; Acculturation in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Americanization -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The melting pot : assimilation to one another; title: Henry James in the "intellectual pot-au-feu"; title: James Weldon Johnson's integrationist chameleonism; title: Recollection, reform, and "broken time" in Willa Cather; title: Gertrude Stein and "individual anything"; title: Afterword : melting-pot histories of the present.