附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Controlling language and culture: Our decentralized literature: the significance of regional, ethnic, racial, and sexual factors -- The assimilation of the American Jewish writer: Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow -- Immigrant fiction as cultural mediation -- History, myth, and the ethnic question: History in I.B. Singer's novels -- Edward Dahlberg: the Jewish orphan in America -- Elmer Rice, liberation, and the great ethnic question -- The Southerner as all-American writer: Realism, cultural politics, and language as mediation in Mark Twain -- Thomas Wolfe and the cult of experience -- Styron's Sophie's choice: Jews and other marginals.
