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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism."”.
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
The Hollywood Novel is an American regional fiction genre that treats characters working in the film industry either in Hollywood or with a Hollywood production company on location. Although pre-Hollywood film novels set in the eastern filmmaking capitals flourished as early as 1912, the Hollywood …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… in Richard Wright’s Native Son, we see Bigger and his friend Gus “playing white.” Taking on the role of “J. P. Morgan,” the two young black men give orders and act powerful, thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than an ironic comment on the characters’ distance …
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the Vanishing American' Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
… symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm and analyze drowning scenes in several pre-twentieth century works to establish the …