Online-Ressource
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?
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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
	Universitätsbibliothek
Lokale URL UB:	Zum Volltext (Nationallizenz)