Reviews for Ethnic American literature

The average rating for Ethnic American literature based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-30 00:00:00 Gene A. Patterson Jr. It's not the most exciting book, despite being full of some of the most exciting, egotistical, and passionate intellectuals in American history, but in its quiet way "Writers and Partisans" illuminates the history of the left in the 1930s–50s United States. The magazine "Partisan Review" matters because its members rejected political reform for the creation of a new proletarian culture. This move put the magazine at odds with the American Communist Party, which was supporting the "Popular Front" in an attempt to transform society. James Gilbert shows how the choice to focus only on experimental art — to ignore mainstream society — eventually led the "Review" into irrelevance by 1955.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-11 00:00:00 David Ellis Very rarely have I given a book five stars. This engaging and efficient (94 pages, minus footnotes) production deserves it. Within the first page, Acocella quickly changed my reticence about groping for meaning from literary critics into a determined and engrossing discovery about the world(s) of literary criticism, while learning more about Cather as a person and an author - and painlessly. I closed the book feeling enlightened and convinced to read a more of Cather's work ane to keep an eye out for more of Acocella's points of view. So glad I spent all of a few days relishing every chapter.