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Verfasst von: | Wonham, Henry B. |
Titel: | Playing the races |
Titelzusatz: | ethnic caricature and American literary realism |
Verf.angabe: | Henry B. Wonham |
Verlagsort: | New York |
Verlag: | Oxford University Press |
Jahr: | 2004 |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (viii, 196 p.) |
Illustrationen: | ill |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | EBSCOhost eBook Collection |
Fussnoten: | Description based on print version record ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-192) and index ; Playing the races |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-803664-7 |
0-19-803664-7 | |
Abstract: | Introduction: the age of caricature, the age of realism -- William Dean Howells and the touch of exaggeration which typifies -- "I want a real coon": Twain and ethnic caricature -- A Jamesian art to be cultivated -- Edith Wharton's flamboyant copy -- The "curious realism" of Charles Chesnutt |
Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of late 19th-century American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant African-American figures? | |
URL: | Volltext: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=121496 |
Schlagwörter: | (g)USA / (s)Ethnische Gruppe <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1870-1900 |
(g)USA / (s)Karikatur / (s)Literatur / (s)Schwarze <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1870-1900 | |
(g)USA / (s)Ethnische Gruppe <Motiv> / (s)Humoristische Darstellung / (z)Geschichte 1870-1900 | |
(g)USA / (s)Karikatur / (s)Literatur / (s)Schwarze <Motiv> / (z)Geschichte 1870-1900 | |
Datenträger: | Online-Ressource |
Sprache: | eng |
RVK-Notation: | HT 1691 ![]() |
HT 1800 ![]() | |
HT 1818 ![]() | |
Sach-SW: | Ethnische Gruppe |
Karikatur | |
Literatur | |
Schwarze | |
Geograph. SW: | USA |
Form-SW: | Electronic books |
K10plus-PPN: | 086717030 |
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