New york city: «gilt cage» or «promised land»?: representations of urban space in edith wharton and anzia yezierska
Auteur :
Billeter Sauter, Irene
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN :
9783034305815
Date de publication :
25 févr. 2011
Poids :
440 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
By analyzing exterior and interior city representations in Wharton's and Yezierska's New York literature, the author shows how urban space greatly affects, influences and alters questions of identity, assimilation, acculturation, and alienation in protagonists who cannot escape their respective settings.