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Heroine, Reformer, Citizen: Novelistic Conventions in Antin's "The Promised Land"
Ist Teil von
Melus, 2013-09, Vol.38 (3), p.25-43
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and the University of Connecticut
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]Antin's autobiography offers an illuminating example of how minority writers could revise dominant literary modes so as to make them more inclusive.4 Sentimentalism and realism prove important to Antin's narrative because they sanction her exceptional transformation from a working-class immigrant to a middle-class woman and writer.5 Broadly speaking, antebellum sentimental novels center on the reform of an individ- ual's character. [...]it is crucial to underscore that the influence of realism on her narrative-particularly in her more critical descriptions of the tenements and in her photographs-reveals that her intermittently senti- mental portrait of America is only possible as a result of reform. [...]her depiction ofher own writing as a type of reform asserts the need for future change to be spearheaded by immigrants.