1st Edition
Surviving the Crossing (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen
By Jessica Rabin
Copyright 2004
248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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 dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity.... Read more
1. Introduction: A Sense of Selves 2. "The Peculiar Combination of Elements Long Familiar": Willa Cather 3. Fiction Was Another Way of Telling the Truth: Gertrude Stein 4. The Mixedness of Things: Nella Larsen 5. Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances Bibliography
Biography
Jessica Rabin is Associate Professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College. Her teaching and research interests include modernism, ethnic American literature, and women's studies.
"[Rabin's] study is ultimately worthy of praise; it aptly points the way toward new forms of scholarship that attempt to push on the boundaries of identity-based literary categorization." -- Matthew Lavin, University of Iowa, Western American Literature
