Unbecoming Americans : Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 /

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During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and Black radicals to racialized migrant laborer...

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Autor principal: Keith, Joseph
Autor Corporativo: American Literatures Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race in literature.
Immigrants' writings, American.
Citizenship in literature.
American literature > Minority authors.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la litterature.
Écrits d'immigrants americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs issus des minorites > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism.
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and Black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. This book sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African-American writers - C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright - the author examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms "alienage," as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of "The American Century." Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, this book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately, they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world in the twenty-first century. -- Adapted from publisher's website.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780813559674

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