• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The Myth of Imperiled Whiteness and Ethan Frome
  • Beteiligte: Ammons, Elizabeth
  • Erschienen: MIT Press - Journals, 2008
  • Erschienen in: The New England Quarterly, 81 (2008) 1, Seite 5-33
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1162/tneq.2008.81.1.5
  • ISSN: 0028-4866; 1937-2213
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  • Beschreibung: Blanketed in whiteness—bleak, frozen, snowed in—the widely read and taught Ethan Frome has a little-recognized racist subtext. Expressing early-twentieth-century nativist anxieties about immigrants of color, Wharton warns that old, white, Yankee New England is disappearing, its farms withering, as swarthy foreigners increasingly dominate the newly industrialized landscape.