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Frontiers of Modern Ethnic American Fiction: Exploring the Popular West in the Writings of Mike Gold, Nathanael West, Americo Paredes, and John Fante.

机译:现代美国民族小说的前沿:迈克·戈尔德,纳塔奈尔·韦斯特,阿美瑞·帕雷德斯和约翰·范特的著作探索西方流行的事物。

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Destabilizing the authentic notions of nationhood and manhood disseminated in dominant narratives about the American West, "Frontiers of Modern Ethnic American Fiction: Exploring the Popular West in the Writings of Mike Gold, Nathanael West, John Fante, and Americo Paredes" contemplates representations of the popular West in early-twentieth-century ethnic-American fiction. The project surveys novels, short stories, and articles composed by modern ethnic-American-male writers. I argue that the ethnic writers of this study broadened the predominant definition of American culture by adopting and adapting cowboy masculinity and motifs of the popular West to the ends of their literary narratives of ethnic masculinity. Writing during a period of immigration restriction and rampant xenophobia, the authors examined here---Mike Gold, Nathanael West, Americo Paredes, and John Fante---deploy figures of cowboy masculinity, celebrated by the popular West, to interrogate and resist the dominant Americanist conception of what constituted the authentic national body. The popular West consists of texts about the American West popularly consumed and circulating in mass culture. Consistent among the popular West's many iterations is a national narrative crafted from a peculiarly Anglo-American historiography that articulated the settlement of the frontier as evidence of American racial superiority. Often motivated by a nativism and pride in Anglo origins, the architects of such dominant narratives fashioned histories and stories of the frontier, where national success was contingent upon the triumph of Anglo-Saxon manhood. These stories experienced tremendous popularity from the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century, appearing in a variety of forms including the dime novel, pulp fiction, stage show, and film. Modern ethnic authors respond to the popular West in different ways, yet all are preoccupied with how popular cultural narratives of the West under the pretext of historical truth convey what it means to be an authentic American and to what extent ethnic groups can stake a real claim to belong in the United States. Examining the responses of modern ethnic American writers to the popular West, my project merges critical subjects---ethnic American literature, popular culture, and the American West---yet to be examined by literary scholarship.
机译:在有关美国西部的主流叙事中散布的真实的民族和男子气概的观念不稳定,“现代美国民族小说的前沿:迈克·戈尔德,纳塔奈尔·韦斯特,约翰·范特和阿美利坚·帕雷德斯的著作中探索西方流行”考虑了在20世纪初的美国黑人小说中流行于西方。该项目调查了现代美国黑人男性作家的小说,短篇小说和文章。我认为,这项研究的族裔作家通过采用并适应了牛仔的阳刚之气和流行的西方的主题,从而拓宽了美国文化的主要定义,以适应其民族阳刚之情的文学叙事。在移民限制和仇外心理猖ramp的时期,作者们在这里考察了迈克·金(Mike Gold),纳塔奈尔·韦斯特(Nathanael West),美利坚合众国·帕雷德斯(Americo Paredes)和约翰·范特(John Fante)。构成真正的国家机构的美国主导概念。流行的西方包含有关在大众文化中广泛消费和流传的美国西部的文字。在西方流行的许多故事中,一致的是一种民族叙事,这种叙事是由一种特殊的英美史学编撰而成的,该史学清楚地表明了边境的定居是美国种族优势的证据。通常是出于本土主义和对盎格鲁起源的自豪感,这种占主导地位的叙事的建筑师创造了边境的历史和故事,在这些国家,国家的成功取决于盎格鲁-撒克逊人的盛行。这些故事在19世纪末至20世纪初经历了极大的欢迎,并以各种形式出现,包括毛钱小说,纸浆小说,舞台表演和电影。现代种族作家以不同的方式回应流行的西方,但是所有人都沉迷于以历史真相为借口的西方流行文化叙事如何传达出成为真正的美国人的含义以及各种族群体在多大程度上可以提出真正的主张属于美国考察了现代美国黑人作家对流行的西方的反应后,我的项目合并了一些关键学科,包括美国的种族文学,大众文化和《美国西部》,但这些文学学科需要加以研究。

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  • 作者

    Gardner, Daniel Gregory.;

  • 作者单位

    University of California, Los Angeles.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Los Angeles.;
  • 学科 Literature American.;Sociology Ethnic and Racial Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2014
  • 页码 291 p.
  • 总页数 291
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类
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