Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation

by Delia Caparoso Konzett

Book Overview

This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural 'ethnic identity' often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349387460
• ISBN13: 9781349387465
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"