Ethnic Modernisms

Introduction: Ethnic Modernism and its Avant-Garde Anzia Yezierska and the Experience of the Assimilated Jew Introduction The New Immigration as Ethnic Catalyst The Experience of Immigrant English in Hungry Hearts The Conscious Pariah: Towards a Transnational Aesthetics From Hollywood to Hester Street: The Image of the Assimilated Jew in Hungry Hearts the Film Black Folk Culture and the Aesthetics of Displacement in Zora Neale Hurston Introduction Race, Nation and Art: The Harlem Renaissance The Folk in Harlem: Zora Neale Hurston's Urban Folklore The Transnational Perspective: The Experience of the African Diaspora in Tell My Horse and Moses, Man of the Mountain 'Getting in Touch with the True South': Pet Negroes, White Crackers and Racial Staging in Seraph on the Suwanee White Mythologies: Jean Rhys's Aesthetics of Posthumanism Introduction Wide Sargasso Sea: White Masks and their Creolization An Expatriate among Expatriates: The Banality of Exile Good Morning, Midnight: Commodity, Distraction and the Displaced Masses Concluding Remarks on the Marketability of Ethnicity Works Cited