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Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation : Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the.
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three "Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four "This Hideous Little Pickaninny" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index.