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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790010103321

Autore

Taubenfeld Aviva F

Titolo

Rough Writing [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America / / Aviva F. Taubenfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-8147-8336-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Nation of Newcomers

Disciplina

973.91/1092

Soggetti

Immigrants - United States - Intellectual life

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

American literature - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Intellectual life 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Mendel's Melting Pot:Israel Zangwill and theScience of the Crucible; 2. Two Flags to Love: JacobRiis and the TransnationalAmerican at the Turn of theTwentieth Century; 3. Making American Homesand America Home: TheodoreRoosevelt and Elizabeth Sternin the Pages of the Ladies'Home Journal; 4. "Threatin' Him as a Akel":Finley Peter Dunne's EthnicCritique of "True Americanism"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be established, transmitted, maintained, and judged. Americans of all stripes sought to articulate and enforce their visions of the nation's



past, present, and future; central to these attempts was President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt fully recognized the narrative component of American identity, and he calle