{"product_id":"white-diaspora-catherine-jurca-9780691057354","title":"White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms \"homelessness.\" In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In novels as disparate as \u003ci\u003eTarzan\u003c\/i\u003e (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's \u003ci\u003eNative Son\u003c\/i\u003e, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: \"the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue\" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Jurca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691057354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691057354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 1049\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2005 pg. 1782","brand":"Catherine Jurca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059475116287,"sku":"9780691057354","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d738353a-89fa-4c6a-aa1d-814b6b09a892.jpg?v=1685058451","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-diaspora-catherine-jurca-9780691057354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}