Slippery characters : ethnic impersonators and American identities /

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This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Browder, Laura, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.
Colección:Cultural studies of the United States.
Temas:
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Literary forgeries and mystifications > History.
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.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Autobiographie.
Faux et supercheries littéraires > Histoire.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Passing (Identité) dans la littérature.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
Groupes ethniques dans la littérature.
Imitation dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
Autobiography
Difference (Psychology) in literature
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Group identity in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Impersonation in literature
Impostors and imposture in literature
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Passing (Identity) in literature
Self in literature
Imitatie.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Autobiografieën.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity
  • Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies
  • Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood
  • One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians
  • The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger
  • Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America
  • Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness
  • To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town
  • Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography.

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