race, class, and gender in modern African-American and Jewish-American literature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rottenberg, Catherine
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- romans, identiteit, etniciteit, sociale klasse, gender, Verenigde Staten, 1910-1919, 1920-1929
- Description
- In this book Rottenberg raises questions about what it means to be an American through an analysis of modern African-American and Jewish literature. The book illustrates how the early-twentieth-century novels of Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Anzia Yezierska, and Abraham Cahan help us to understand the specific ways that gender, class, race, and ethnicity have regulated the identity formation of African an Jewish Americans, as well as the ways these categories have helped produce and sustain social stratification in the United States more generally.