04057nam 2200841 a 450 991081529370332120240430165508.0979-88-908708-2-70-8078-6060-3(CKB)111087027915524(EBL)427113(OCoLC)476268388(SSID)ssj0000246806(PQKBManifestationID)11227054(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246806(PQKBWorkID)10188971(PQKB)11662025(Au-PeEL)EBL427113(CaPaEBR)ebr10041255(MiAaPQ)EBC427113(EXLCZ)9911108702791552419991020d2000 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSlippery characters ethnic impersonators and American identities /Laura Browder1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20001 online resource (326 p.)Cultural studies of the United StatesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-4859-X 0-8078-2546-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Slave Narratives and the Problem of Authenticity; 2. Staged Ethnicities: Laying the Groundwork for Ethnic Impersonator Autobiographies; 3. Writing American: California Novels of Brown People and White Nationhood; 4. One Hundred Percent American: How a Slave, a Janitor, and a Former Klansman Escaped Racial Categories by Becoming Indians; 5. The Immigrant's Answer to Horatio Alger; 6. Passing As Poor: Class Imposture in Depression America; 7. Postwar Blackface: How Middle-Class White Americans Became Authentic through Blackness8. To Pass Is To Survive: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town Conclusion: Rewriting the Ethnic Autobiography; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn the 1920's, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990's, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwantedCultural studies of the United States.American prose literatureHistory and criticismAutobiographyLiterary forgeries and mystificationsHistoryImpostors and imposture in literatureDifference (Psychology) in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literaturePassing (Identity) in literatureGroup identity in literatureEthnic groups in literatureImpersonation in literatureEthnicity in literatureSelf in literatureAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticism.Autobiography.Literary forgeries and mystificationsHistory.Impostors and imposture in literature.Difference (Psychology) in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Passing (Identity) in literature.Group identity in literature.Ethnic groups in literature.Impersonation in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Self in literature.810.9/492Browder Laura1963-1671803MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815293703321Slippery characters4050759UNINA