TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaleila,Wisam Abughosh
TI  - Racism and xenophobia in early twentieth-century American fiction: when a house is not a home 
T2  - Routledge research in American literature and culture
SN  - 9781000328189
AV  - PS169.R28 
U1  - 810.9/3552 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Racism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
N2  - "The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often been brought into the focus of Modernist literary criticism, though their existence in the record is clear. This book aims to discuss these chronicles, displaying in great detail the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded so deeply inboth fictional and real personas, whether theyare characters, writers, legislators, or the common people. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected so as to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm. Though history is taught, it is not so thoroughly examined. To our misfortune, we naively think that bigoted ideas are not a thing we could become afflicted with. They are antiques from the past - yet they possessed many hundreds of people and they surround us still. Since we've experienced very little change, it seems discipline is necessary to truly attempt to be rid of these ideas
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367508685
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -