Lynch mobs and racial identity in modernist fiction -- Joe Christmas, bigger Thomas and legalized lynching -- Female identity, southern womanhood and crowd narration in Faulkner's fiction -- The crowd at war and at home in Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's fiction -- The Great Depression and migrating crowds in Steinbeck's and Faulkner's fiction -- The road to a conclusion.
Summary:
"This study explores numerous depictions of crowd violence, literal and figurative, found in American Modernist fiction, and shows the ways crowd violence is used as a literary trope to examine issues of racial, gender, national, and class identity during this period"--Provided by publisher.
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