Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism

Download or read book Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism written by Leif Sorensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on the remarkable careers of four ethnic fiction writers of the 1930s (Younghill Kang, D'Arcy McNickle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Américo Paredes) Sorensen presents a new view of the history of multicultural literature in the U.S. The first part of the book situates these authors within the modernist era to provide an alternative, multicultural vision of American modernism. The second part examines the complex reception histories of these authors' works, showing how they have been claimed or rejected as ancestors for contemporary multiethnic writing. Combining the approaches of the new modernist studies and ethnic studies, the book.