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At home and abroad : historicizing twentieth-century whiteness in literature and performance /

Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jennings, La Vinia Delois
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2009.
Colección:Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 44.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The race for whiteness in the twentieth century / La Vinia Delois Jennings
  • Argentina White / Amy Kaminsky
  • A dream of a white Vienna after World War I: Hugo Bettauer's The city without Jews and The blue stain / Peter Höyng
  • From "Yeʹlida" to Movimiento de mujeres Dominico-Haitianas: gendering resistance to whiteness in the Dominican Republic / Dawn Duke
  • Romancing whiteness: popular Appalachian fiction and the imperialist imagination at the turns of two centuries / Emily Satterwhite
  • The threat to whiteness: white women's marital betrayals in colonial settings / Suzanne Leonard
  • The suspect whiteness of Spain / Baltasar Fra-Molinero
  • The myth of whiteness and a changing Italy: historic memory and colonialist attitudes in Lamerica / Renée DʹElia-Zunino
  • "Claiming": White ambition, multiracial identity, and the new American racial passing / Meredith McCarroll
  • Beyond the white Negro: eminem, Danny Hoch, and race treason in contemporary America / Kimberly Chabot Davis
  • Stalling Zion: hegemony, whiteness, and racial discourse in the matrix phenomenon / Douglas A. Cunningham.