Fifties ethnicities : : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / / Tracy Floreani.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Albany : : State University of New York Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in multiethnic literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.