03778nam 2200757 a 450 991078836650332120200520144314.01-283-86420-70-8135-4989-210.36019/9780813549897(CKB)3170000000047051(EBL)847581(OCoLC)774279017(SSID)ssj0000585000(PQKBManifestationID)11371653(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585000(PQKBWorkID)10592748(PQKB)11591311(MdBmJHUP)muse8207(DE-B1597)530222(DE-B1597)9780813549897(Au-PeEL)EBL847581(CaPaEBR)ebr10531173(CaONFJC)MIL417670(MiAaPQ)EBC847581(EXLCZ)99317000000004705120100308d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe white negress[electronic resource] literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary /Lori Harrison-KahanNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press20111 online resource (240 p.)American Literatures InitiativeDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4782-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.From White Negress to Yiddishe mama: Sophie Tucker and the female blackface tradition -- The same Show Boat: Edna Ferber's interracial ideal -- Limitations of white: Fannie Hurst and the consumption of blackness -- Minstrel of the mountain: Zora Neale Hurston and the black-Jewish imaginary.During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether such black-Jewish encounters thwarted or enabled Jews' claims to white privilege has focused on men and representations of masculinity while ignoring questions of women and femininity. The White Negress investigates literary and cultural texts by Jewish and African American women, opening new avenues of inquiry that yield more complex stories about Jewishness, African American identity, and the meanings of whiteness. Lori Harrison-Kahan examines writings by Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as the blackface performances of vaudevillian Sophie Tucker and controversies over the musical and film adaptations of Show Boat and Imitation of Life. Moving between literature and popular culture, she illuminates how the dynamics of interethnic exchange have at once produced and undermined the binary of black and white.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismPassing (Identity) in literatureWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEthnicity in literatureAfrican American women authorsJewish women authorsUnited StatesAmericanizationImmigrants in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Passing (Identity) in literature.Women and literatureHistoryEthnicity in literature.African American women authors.Jewish women authorsAmericanization.Immigrants in literature.810.9/3529Harrison-Kahan Lori1530081MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788366503321The white negress3861991UNINA