1. Introduction
2. Gertrude Stein and “Negro Sunshine”
3. Ethnic Lives and Lifelets
4. Ethnic Themes, Modern Themes
5. Mary Antin: Progressive Optimism against Odds
6. Who is “American”?
7. American Languages
8. “All the past we leave behind”? Ole E. Rölvaag and the Immigrant Trilogy
9. Modernism, Ethnic Labeling, and the Quest for Wholeness: Jean Toomer’s New American Race
10. Freud, Marx, Hard-Boiled
11. Hemingway Spoken Here
12. Henry Roth: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Modernism
13. Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! The Clock, the Salesman, and the Breast
14. Immigrant Literature and Totalitarianism
15. Was Modernism Anti-Totalitarian?
16. Facing the Extreme
17. Grand Central Terminal
• Chronology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

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