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Spaces of Identity: Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Salome of the Tenements (1923) and Quicksand (1928)
Anca-luminiţa Iancusubject
Cultural StudiesSociology and Political Sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectEthnic groupIdentity (social science)Race (biology)AZ20-999genderQuicksandracial and ethnic identityin-between spaces of “otherness.”belongingmedia_common05 social sciencesGender studies06 humanities and the artsArt060202 literary studiesComputer Science Applications050903 gender studiesAnthropology0602 languages and literatureLiterary criticismHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanities0509 other social sciencesindividual female identitydescription
Abstract The 1920s marked a fervent time for artistic and literary expression in the United States. Besides the famous authors of the decade, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, Anzia Yezierska and Nella Larsen, among other female writers, also managed to carve “a literary space” for their stories. Yezierska and Larsen depicted the struggles and tribulations of minority women during the fermenting 1920s, with a view to illustrating the impact of ethnicity and race on the individual female identity. Yezierska, a Jewish-American immigrant, and Larsen, a biracial American woman, share an interest in capturing the nuances of belonging to a particular community as an in-between subject. Therefore, this essay sets out to examine the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and choice in shaping individual identities in public and private in-between spaces in Yezierska’s Salome of the Tenements (1923) and Larsen’s Quicksand (1928).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 | American, British and Canadian Studies Journal |