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161 Index African Americanness, 5, 7, 8, 23, 24, 32, 35, 40, 45, 50–54, 56–58, 60, 65–68, 80, 99, 105–106, 112, 113, 116, 121–123, 126, 138, 152, 153 A Kind of Magic, 9, 119 anti-Semitism, 7, 18, 33, 134, 140 Alaska, 1, 49, 133, 134, 142–150, 157; struggle for statehood of, 1, 142–144, 149, 150, 157 Algonquin Round Table, ix, 1, 3 American Beauty, 3, 5, 7, 64–91,109, 118, 153 American Magazine, 2 A Peculiar Treasure, 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 25, 28, 49, 63, 64, 71, 82, 97, 98, 103, 104 Appleton, Wisconsin, 2, 146 Appleton Daily Crescent, 2 Asian Americanness, 136, 140, 143, 144 Back Street (Hurst), 4 Barrymore, Ethel, 11 Benedict, Leslie Lynnton (character, Giant ). See Lynnton, Leslie (character, Giant) Bennett, Juda, 51 Biale, David, 9, 144 Botshon, Lisa, 4 Brandeis, Fanny (character, Fanny Herself), 5, 10, 11, 12, 18–29, 32, 33, 36, 39, 45, 46, 52, 60, 66, 72, 73, 77, 81, 104, 151 Brandeis, Louis D., 25 Brainerd, Betty, 92 Campbell, Donna, 8 Catholicism, 21, 93 Chamberlain, John, 92 Chicago, 2, 3, 27–36, 39–43, 45–46, 57, 83–84, 95, 151 Cimarron, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 19, 29, 46, 50, 63– 80, 85, 91, 120, 121, 131, 134, 139–140, 145, 152, 154 class, 4, 5, 8–11, 15, 17, 27–32, 24, 27, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 58, 61, 68, 74, 76, 79, 92, 95–99, 100–102, 194, 107, 112, 115, 118, 119, 122, 129, 133, 137, 139, 151, 153 Come and Get It, 91–102, 135 Cosmopolitan, The, 2, 134 Cravat, Sabra (character, Cimarron), 6, 65–66, 68–72, 74–76, 78–80, 121, 140 Currie, George, 49 Dawn O’Hara, 2, 6, 11–17, 21, 25–29, 150, 151 Dawn O’Hara (character, Dawn O’Hara), 2, 6, 12–19, 21, 25–29, 150, 151 Dean, James, 1, 118 DeJong, Selina Peake (character, So Big) 39–47, 53, 57, 60, 73, 83, 84, 95, 137, 140 Dewey, John, 8–9, 81, 94, 133, 144, 149 Dickens, Charles, 2, 5, 32, 36, 85, 98 Dickinson, Rogers, 3, 39 162 Index Dinner at Eight, 3 Doubleday, Abner, 9, 82 Dulaine, Clio (character, Saratoga Trunk), 104–117, 143 Dutch (language and ethnicity), 29, 20, 36, 39–41, 42, 44, 95, 133 Eskimo (language and ethnicity), 133, 144, 146–149 Fanny Herself, 7, 10, 18–25, 32, 33, 36, 39, 45, 46, 52, 60, 66, 72, 73, 77, 81, 104, 151 Ferber, Fannie, 3 Ferber, Jacob, 2 Ferber, Julia, 11, 12 film versions, Ferber’s novels and, 1, 7, 8, 48, 64, 103, 113, 119, 157 Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 4 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 12 Galchinsky, Michael, 9, 144 Gale, Zona, 4 gender, 4–6, 8, 27, 34, 39, 65, 110–111, 127, 128, 145, 151 Germanness, 2, 8, 9, 12–17, 25, 27, 29, 93, 95, 103, 125, 138–141, 149, 150 Giant, 1, 3, 7, 20, 28, 46, 50, 110, 111, 118– 132, 133, 134, 142, 143, 150, 154; reception of in Texas, 119–120 Gilbert, Julie, 9, 10, 11, 25, 55, 65, 84, 106 Girls, The, 2, 7, 10, 27–39, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 50, 72, 94, 139, 151 Glasgow, Barney (character, Come and Get It), 92, 97, 98, 118, 135, 138 Goddu, Teresa, 83 Goldsmith, Meredith, 4 Great Son, 3, 7, 10, 133–142, 154 Gruening, Ernest, 142 Harlem, 5, 100, 138 Harper, Frances, 48 Heschel, Susan, 9, 144 Hitler, Adolf, 103, 139 Hudson, Henry, 27, 30 Hughes, Langston, 5 Hunter, Charles and Beulah, 48–49 Hurst, Fannie, 4, 7, 12 Ice Palace, 3, 7, 10, 143–150, 152 identity, 2, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 33, 45, 50, 51, 53, 55, 65, 68, 75, 80, 81, 98, 106, 107, 110, 112, 115, 124, 126, 136, 150, 151–152, 154 Indianness, 9, 63–80, 86, 87, 140, 152 internment camps, 141 Irishness, 8, 13–17, 23, 25, 29, 44, 45, 53, 92–94, 97, 100, 111, 137, 140, 150, 153 Japanese (language and ethnicity), 23, 44, 133, 134, 140, 141 jazz, 99, 100 Jewish characters in Ferber’s novels: existence of, 10; Fanny Brandeis (Fanny Herself), 18–26, 29, 32, 33, 35, 45, 52, 60, 66, 72, 73, 77, 81, 104, 134, 137, 138, 151; ground controller (Ice Palace), 144–145; the Raffskys (Ice Palace), 145–149; Reggie Dresden (Great Son), 139–142...
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