American Uncles and Aunts: Generations, Genealogies, Bildungs in 1930s Novels

The essay focuses on the characters of uncles and aunts as they emerge in four novels written in the 1930s by two second-generation immigrant novelists and two American women writers: Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep (1934), Pietro di Donato’s Christ in Concrete (1939), Josephine Herbst’s Pity Is Not Enou...

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Main Author: Cinzia Scarpino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2013-05-01
Series:Altre Modernità
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2999