Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction
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Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction

When a House is Not a Home

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction

When a House is Not a Home

About this book

"The Melting Pot, " "The Land of The Free, " "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often been brought into the focus of Modernist literary criticism, though their existence in the record is clear.

This book aims to discuss these chronicles, displaying in great detail the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded so deeply inboth fictional and real personas, whether theyare characters, writers, legislators, or the common people. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected so as to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm.

Though history is taught, it is not so thoroughly examined. To our misfortune, we naively think that bigoted ideas are not a thing we could become afflicted with. They are antiques from the past – yet they possessed many hundreds of people and they surround us still. Since we've experienced very little change, it seems discipline is necessary to truly attempt to be rid of these ideas.

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Yes, you can access Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction by Wisam Abughosh Chaleila in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Modern Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780367689100
eBook ISBN
9781000328189

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Background
  11. 2 When a House is Not a Home: Materialism, Nostalgia, and Death
  12. 3 Racist, Xenophobic, and Materialistic 1920s America
  13. 4 Collectiveness, Doubleness, and Imitation
  14. 5 The House of Mirth and the Spirit of the Roaring Twenties
  15. Conclusion
  16. Index