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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816590503321

Titolo

Complicating constructions [[electronic resource] ] : race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts / / edited by David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2007

ISBN

0-295-80074-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Collana

American ethnic and cultural studies

Altri autori (Persone)

GoldsteinDavid S

ThackerAudrey B

Disciplina

810.9/3552

Soggetti

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Race in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Minorities in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Multiculturalism in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Citizenship rights and colonial whites: the cultural work of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's novels / Jesse Alemán -- Testifying bodies: citizenship debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy / Andrea Tinnemeyer -- The color of money in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Ariel Balter -- Passing as the "tragic" mulatto: constructions of hybridity in Toni Morrison's novels / AnnaMarie Christiansen -- Re-viewing the literary Chinatown: multicultural hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Jeffrey F. L. Partridge -- Reading The Turner diaries: Jewish blackness, judaized blacks, and head-body race paradigms / Joe Lockard -- Smallpox, opium, and invasion: Chinese invasion, white guilt, and Native American displacement in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction / Edwin J. McAllister -- Visualizing race in American immigrant autobiography / Georgina Dodge -- Maud Martha vs. I love Lucy: taking on the postwar



consumer fantasy / Tracy Floreani -- Some do, some don't: whiteness theory and the treatment of race in African American drama / William Over -- Traumatic legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High cotton / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Portnoy's neglected siblings: a case for postmodern Jewish American literary studies / Derek Parker Royal -- Tension, conversation, and collectivity: examining the space of double consciousness in the search for shared knowledge / Sheree Meyer, Chauncey Ridley, & Olivia Castellano -- When hybridity doesn't resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-yo boing! / José L. Torres-Padilla.