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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953175403321

Titolo

At home and abroad : historicizing twentieth-century whiteness in literature and performance / / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2009

ISBN

9786613098580

9781283098588

128309858X

9781572337442

1572337443

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Tennessee studies in literature ; ; v. 44

Altri autori (Persone)

JenningsLa Vinia Delois

Disciplina

809/.93355

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Race awareness in literature

White people 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

Introduction: The race for whiteness in the twentieth century / La Vinia Delois Jennings -- Argentina White / Amy Kaminsky -- A dream of a white Vienna after World War I: Hugo Bettauer's The city without Jews and The blue stain / Peter Höyng -- From "Yeʹlida" to Movimiento de mujeres Dominico-Haitianas: gendering resistance to whiteness in the Dominican Republic / Dawn Duke -- Romancing whiteness: popular Appalachian fiction and the imperialist imagination at the  turns of two centuries / Emily Satterwhite -- The threat to whiteness: white women's marital betrayals in colonial settings / Suzanne Leonard -- The suspect whiteness of Spain / Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- The myth of whiteness and a changing Italy: historic memory and colonialist attitudes in Lamerica / Reneʹe DʹEliz-Zunino -- "Claiming": White ambition, multiracial identity, and the new American racial passing / Meredith McCarroll -- Beyond the white Negro: eminem, Danny Hoch, and race treason in contemporary America / Kimberly Chabot Davis -- Stalling Zion: hegemony, whiteness, and racial discourse in the matrix phenomenon / Douglas A. Cunningham.



Sommario/riassunto

Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical exigencies to whiten themselves.Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or per