00000cmm a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862054506 Buklod 20170221145255.0 g||| | || || ta 170221s2011 enk u eng d 9780511791628 (eBook) (iLib)UPBAG-00023398224 DLC DML BAG rda eng ML-ebook Forter, Greg author. Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism [electronic resource] Greg Forter. Cambridge Cambridge University Press [2011] 1 online resource (226 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Introduction -- 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby -- 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia -- 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! -- 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms. IP-based subscription, on-campus, and remote access available via OpenAthens. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPB University Library website. American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold new reading of canonical modernism in the United States - Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. United Kingdom Cambridge 2011. Available via World Wide Web through Cambridge. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) United States. Gender identity in literature. Race in literature. Grief in literature. Electronic books. Available for University of the Philippines Baguio via Cambridge Books Online. Click here to access http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511791628 (viewed 03 August 2022) FO Monograph UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ML-ebook Electronic Resource