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Multitude Modernism : = Democratic Epiphany in American Interwar Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Multitude Modernism :/
Reminder of title:	Democratic Epiphany in American Interwar Literature.
Author:	Berardino, Christopher Seiji.
Description:	1 online resource (236 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-04A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28643280click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798460414376

Multitude Modernism : = Democratic Epiphany in American Interwar Literature.
Berardino, Christopher Seiji.

Multitude Modernism :Democratic Epiphany in American Interwar Literature. - 1 online resource (236 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references

My dissertation develops a theory of "Multitude Modernism" by examining signal instances of what I call "democratic epiphany" in literary works by writers of color and leftist artists in the 1930s and 1940s, notably Richard Wright, H.T. Tsiang, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Steinbeck. My study analyzes narrative moments, often in the plot's climax, where a compassionate protagonist momentarily unites, sometimes even merges with, their broader social communities. During these surrealistic moments of "democratic epiphany," surrounding populations are transformed into a single entity, a transcendent social collective no longer bound by repressive structures of race and class. I contend "democratic epiphany" can be understood not only as radical writers' imagined alternative to oppression but also as the aesthetic of an era. Drawing on the scholarly contributions of Michael Denning, Alan Wald, Floyd Chueng, and Michael Tratner, my dissertation examines American writers' subversion of High Modernist practice to forge a modernism of their own making. Though significant work has been done in recovering the existence of a distinctly leftist modernist movement, few studies formally account for these strange moments of social synthesis. Attending to writers from an array of ethnic affiliations, my chapters seek to account for the ways in which democratic epiphany articulates the convictions of a multiethnic pluralism that blossomed throughout the interwar period.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798460414376Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

DemocracyIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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