TY - BOOK AU - Floreani,Tracy TI - Fifties ethnicities: the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury T2 - SUNY series in multiethnic literature SN - 9781438447704 AV - PS153.M56 F57 2013eb U1 - 810.9/920693 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - American literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - Immigrants in literature KW - Littérature américaine KW - Auteurs issus des minorités KW - Histoire et critique KW - Roman américain KW - 20e siècle KW - Ethnicité dans la littérature KW - Immigrants dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty : American popular culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale : consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy : negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood : narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man N2 - This book demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in mid-twentieth-century America UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=691367 ER -