Surviving the Crossing

By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and d...

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Main Author: Rabin, Jessica (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2004
Series:Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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