Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.
Contents:
Ethnic modernisms and their avant-gardes -- Anzia Yezierska and the experience of the assimilated Jew: The new immigration as ethnic catalyst ; The experience of immigrant English in Hungry hearts ; The conscious pariah: toward a transnational aesthetics ; From Hollywood to Hester street: the image of the assimilated Jew in Hungry hearts the film -- Black folk culture and the aesthetics of dislocation in Zora Neale Hurston: Race, nation and art: the Harlem Renaissance ; The folk in Harlem: Zora Neale Hurston's urban folklore ; The transnational perspective: the experience of the African diaspora in Tell my horse and Moses, man of the mountain ; "Getting in touch with the true South": pet Negroes, white crackers and racial staging in Seraph on the Suwanee -- White mythologies: Jean Rhys's aesthetics of posthumanism: Wide sargasso sea: white masks and their creolization ; An expatriate among expatriates: the banality of exile ; Good morning, midnight: commodity, distraction, and the displaced masses.
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