03414oam 22006854a 450 991048075220332120170810200540.00-8147-8336-8(CKB)2670000000155507(EBL)865915(OCoLC)779828301(SSID)ssj0000607660(PQKBManifestationID)11444961(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607660(PQKBWorkID)10585172(PQKB)11764738(OCoLC)794701133(MdBmJHUP)muse10394(MiAaPQ)EBC865915(EXLCZ)99267000000015550720080602d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRough Writing[electronic resource] Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt’s America /Aviva F. TaubenfeldNew York ;London :New York University Press,[2008]©20081 online resource (252 p.)Nation of NewcomersDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-8291-4 0-8147-8290-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.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 AuthorAs 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 calleNation of NewcomersImmigrantsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureEthnicity in literatureRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesIntellectual life1865-1918Electronic books. ImmigrantsIntellectual life.American literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Ethnicity in literature.RhetoricPolitical aspectsHistory.973.91/1092Taubenfeld Aviva F1037161MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480752203321Rough Writing2457935UNINA