03761nam 2200853Ia 450 991081630730332120200520144314.00-8262-6485-9(CKB)1000000000246912(OCoLC)191930150(CaPaEBR)ebrary10129001(SSID)ssj0000259720(PQKBManifestationID)11209458(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259720(PQKBWorkID)10191181(PQKB)11419679(MiAaPQ)EBC3570884(Au-PeEL)EBL3570884(CaPaEBR)ebr10129001(EXLCZ)99100000000024691220050926d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTo be suddenly white literary realism and racial passing /Steven J. Belluscio1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc20061 online resource (301 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8262-1619-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- To Be Suddenly White -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Assimilation, Whiteness, and Realism -- 2 To Pass or Not to Pass? -- 3 Race or Nation? -- 4 "To Rise Above This Absurd Drama That Others Have Staged" -- 5 "As If I Were Dead" -- 6 Women "Caught between Two Allegiances" -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index."Explores the challenges of subjective passing narratives written during the height of literary realism. Discusses racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity by comparing African-American narratives of James Johnson, Nella Larson, and George Schuyler and "white" ethnic (Jewish-American and Italian-American) narratives by Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, and Guido d'Agostino"--Provided by publisher.American prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismMinoritiesUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansBiographyHistory and criticismAssimilation (Sociology) in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literatureAfrican Americans in literaturePassing (Identity) in literatureHuman skin color in literatureRace awareness in literatureGroup identity in literatureEthnicity in literatureRealism in literatureRace in literatureAutobiographyAmerican prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American prose literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.MinoritiesBiographyHistory and criticism.African AmericansHistory and criticism.Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.Identity (Psychology) in literature.African Americans in literature.Passing (Identity) in literature.Human skin color in literature.Race awareness in literature.Group identity in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Realism in literature.Race in literature.Autobiography.810.9/3552Belluscio Steven J1655090MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816307303321To be suddenly white4007292UNINA