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Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism by GREG FORTER, Forter, Greg is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism about?
American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to dispa
Who reads Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- GREG FORTER, Forter, Greg
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781139078528
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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