White Diaspora the Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

Summary: This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richar.

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ISBN: 9781400824137 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1400824133 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9786613339737
ISBN: 6613339733
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (247 p.)
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.

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General Note:	Terms of use - CatMonthString:jun.14 CatMonthString:august.15 Multi-user.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; WHITE DIASPORA; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs; CHAPTER TWO; Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb; CHAPTER THREE; Mildred Pierce's Interiors; CHAPTER FOUR; Native Son's Trespasses; CHAPTER FIVE; Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel; EPILOGUE; Same As It Ever Was (More or Less); NOTES; INDEX.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.