Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism

Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism

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Publisher's Synopsis

American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold reading of canonical modernism in the United States.

Book information

ISBN: 9781107004726
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.52093532
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 217
Weight: 510g
Height: 158mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 17mm