Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925

Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925
ISBN-10
0252025342
ISBN-13
9780252025341
Category
History
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Katrina Irving

Description

"Katrina Irving's close reading of novels by Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Harold Frederic, and Frank Norris discloses the portrayal of immigrant women, especially immigrant mothers, as a reflection of larger cultural anxieties. In the wake of economic retooling and Fordist mechanization, Irving maintains, immigrants became feminized others against which native Anglo-American virility could be aggrandized."--BOOK JACKET.

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