{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674030915?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"0674030915","authors":["Werner Sollors"],"book_id":"9780674030916","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/ethnic-modernism-9780674030916","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780674030916.jpg?v=8e1c848f59b298bd","description":"In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. At the same time, technologies of dissemination evolved rapidly, and versions of modernism emerged as dominant art forms. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these developments that also transformed the United States, giving it an increasingly multicultural self-awareness? This book attempts to address this question in a series of innovative and engaging close readings of major texts by Gertrude Stein, Mary Antin, Jean Toomer, O. E. Rölvaag, Nathan Asch, Henry Roth, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Pietro di Donato, Jerre Mangione, John Hersey, and Leo Szilard, as well as briefer examinations of many other authors and works, against the background of international political developments, the rise of modernism in the visual arts, and the ascendancy of Ernest Hemingway as a model for prose writers. In many of Werner Sollors’s sensitive readings, single sentences and paragraphs serve as the representative formal units of prose works, while throughout Ethnic Modernism the trolley (now a cute-seeming object of nostalgia) emerges with surprising frequency as a central thematic emblem of modernity.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780674030916","publication_date":"20081202","publisher":"WW Norton","slug":"ethnic-modernism","subtitle":"","title":"Ethnic Modernism"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"American Lit Crit","score":0.7924,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Black Lit Crit","score":0.7894,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT024050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"20th-Century Literary Criticism","score":0.782,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"LIT004020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"American Lit Crit","score":0.7924,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Black Lit Crit","score":0.7894,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT024050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"20th-Century Literary Criticism","score":0.782,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036060","confidence_band":"high","label":"20th-Century America","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004020","confidence_band":"high","label":"American Lit Crit","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Black Lit Crit","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"American Lit Crit","score":0.7924,"slug":"american-lit-crit"},{"label":"Black Lit Crit","score":0.7894,"slug":"black-lit-crit"},{"label":"20th-Century Literary Criticism","score":0.782,"slug":"20th-century-literary-criticism"}],"reader_fit":["For readers interested in African American and immigrant writers in modernism","For readers seeking close readings of prose and its cultural context"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["A. Kent","Alicia A. Kent"],"book_id":"9781403977977","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781403977977.jpg?v=33fb99e11dc6aebd","score":0.764,"title":"African, Native, and Jewish American Literature and the Reshaping of Modernism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781403977977"},{"authors":["Helena Grice","Candida Hepworth","Maria Lauret","Martin Padget"],"book_id":"9780719057632","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780719057632.jpg?v=93afadce6c39bd5a","score":0.7305,"title":"Beginning Ethnic American Literatures","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780719057632"},{"authors":["Elizabeth J. Dell","Joe B. Fulton"],"book_id":"9781481312639","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781481312639.jpg?v=dc4c9789411274db","score":0.7191,"title":"American Literary Cultures","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781481312639"},{"authors":["Mica Nava","Alan O'Shea"],"book_id":"9780415069335","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780415069335.jpg?v=905f76b1dc9a3e11","score":0.7105,"title":"Modern Times","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780415069335"},{"authors":["D. Berton Emerson"],"book_id":"9781469678405","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781469678405.jpg?v=e2a8712b65a2b401","score":0.6918,"title":"American Literary Misfits","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781469678405"},{"authors":["David Bradshaw","Kevin J. H. Dettmar"],"book_id":"9780470700563","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780470700563.jpg?v=04c00fdfc146abdb","score":0.6891,"title":"A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780470700563"},{"authors":["John Paul Riquelme"],"book_id":"9780801888656","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780801888656.jpg?v=caffcdb24962b9e5","score":0.683,"title":"Gothic and Modernism","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780801888656"},{"authors":["Alfred Kazin"],"book_id":"9780156687508","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780156687508.jpg?v=9d5d36e6bd7b0919","score":0.6759,"title":"On Native Grounds","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780156687508"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:american literature"],"label":"Literature","score":0.057,"slug":"literature"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:literary criticism"],"label":"Literary","score":0.0312,"slug":"literary"},{"evidence_refs":["phrase_map_match"],"label":"Short Stories","score":0.0216,"slug":"short-story"},{"evidence_refs":["phrase_map_match"],"label":"Book Club","score":0.0215,"slug":"book-club"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Minority writers and modernism, Multicultural American cultural history, Prose form and close reading.","Themes: Literature, Literary, Short Stories.","Reading lane: American Lit Crit and Black Lit Crit."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.88,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["For readers interested in African American and immigrant writers in modernism","For readers seeking close readings of prose and its cultural context"],"themes":["Minority writers and modernism","Multicultural American cultural history","Prose form and close reading"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":13,"goodreads_reviews_count":2,"quality_score":0.8315}}