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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825620203321

Titolo

The invention of ethnicity / / edited by Werner Sollors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

0-19-772469-8

0-19-802149-6

1-280-44007-4

1-60129-666-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xx, 294 p

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

SollorsWerner

Disciplina

810/.9/920692

Soggetti

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Ethnicity in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Minorities in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- On the Fourth of July in Sitka -- Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity -- An American Writer -- A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses -- Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade -- Defining the Race 1890-1930 -- Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self -- Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale -- Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics -- Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives -- Comping for Count Basie -- Is Ethnicity Obsolete? -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

These essays chart the cultural constraints of `ethnicity' in American history and culture. Sollors' introductory essay sets the framework for the discussion of ethnicity and the individual essays cover a wide range of topics: Native American, Latin-American, historical Jewish, nineteenth-century American German, American Jewish, Italian, and Afro-American.