This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon.

Autorentext
ALICIA KENT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction African Americans: Moving from Caricatures to Creators, Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston Native Americans: Moving from Primitive to Postmodern, Mourning Dove and D'Arcy McNickle Jewish Americans: Moving from Exile to Authorship, Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska