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Autore: | Belluscio Steven J |
Titolo: | To be suddenly white : literary realism and racial passing / / Steven J. Belluscio |
Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/3552 |
Soggetto topico: | American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
American prose literature - Minority authors - History and criticism | |
Minorities - United States - Biography - History and criticism | |
African Americans - History 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 | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | To be suddenly white |
ISBN: | 0-8262-6485-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816307303321 |
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