White Diaspora : : The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel /

White Diaspora : : The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel / / Catherine Jurca.

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This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Jurca, Catherine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2001
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs
  • CHAPTER TWO. Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb
  • CHAPTER THREE. Mildred Pierce's Interiors
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Native Son's Trespasses
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel
  • EPILOGUE: Same As It Ever Was (More or Less)
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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