 | The Modernist Nation Subjects: Beat generation.; Artists in literature.; Nationalism in literature.; Conflict of generations in literature.; National characteristics American in literature.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Modernism (Literature); American literature; The Modernist Nation examines why America's modern literary movements have come to be characterized as "generations" and "renaissances," such as the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation or the Harlem, Southern, and San Francisco Renaissances. The metaphor of rebirth, Michael Soto argues, offered and continues to offer American writers a kind of shorthand for imagining American cultural history, especially as a departure from Old World (English) trappings.
Michael Soto is Assistant Professor of English and Interim Director of African American Studies at Trinity University. |
