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- Title
Ovid, Race and Identity in E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime (1975) and Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (2002).
- Authors
Roynon, Tessa
- Abstract
The article presents literary criticism of novels including "Ragtime" by E. L. Doctorow and "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Topics discussed include changing identity in the rapidly modernizing America of the twentieth century; both novels exemplify prototypical postmodernism in their disregard for the distinction between art and reality; and the representation of African Americans and the struggle for black equality.
- Subjects
RAGTIME (Book); MIDDLESEX (Book); DOCTOROW, E. L., 1931-2015; EUGENIDES, Jeffrey; POSTMODERNISM (Literature); AFRICAN Americans in literature
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 4, p377
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1007/s12138-019-00510-w