Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism Between the World Wars

by Rita Keresztesi

Book Overview

Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with modernist literary studies from the perspectives of minority discourse, postcolonial studies, and postmodern theory, Rita Keresztesi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803227922
• ISBN13: 9780803227927
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"