Spaces of Identity
Gender, Ethnicity, and Race in Salome of the Tenements (1923) and Quicksand (1928)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12948355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anca-Luminiţa Iancu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-75 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American, British and Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1841-1487 • E-ISSN: 1841-964X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.2478/abcsj-2018-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2888617555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
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)
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Race (biology · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · American Literature and Culture · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies
Transcultural Imaginings
Desire and Death in Quicksand , by Nella Larsen
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Ethnic Modernisms
Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress
The Clothes Make the Woman
Reading Material
Self-Delusion and Self-Sacrifice in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
My Picture of You Is, after All, the True Helga Crane
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |