Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation - Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in Late

Informationen zum Autor Linda Joyce Brown Klappentext This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Preface: Questioning Whiteness 1. Introduction: Race, Whiteness and Women Immigrants 2. Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation 3. "Why Couldn't We Have been Either One Thing or the Other?": Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far 4. "This Hideous Little Pickaninny" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism and Willa Cather's My Antonia 5. Epilogue: Assimilation and Re-Racialization of Immigrant Bodies

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• Authors: Brown, Linda Joyce Brown, Linda Joyce (Mitchell College Brown, BROWN LINDA JOYCE MITCHELL COLLE
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2004
• EAN: 9780415949316
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94931-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Studies in American Popular Hi; Studies in American Popular History and Culture; Studies in American Popular History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, Literature & literary studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies