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Unbecoming Americans : Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 /
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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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Unbecoming Americans : |b Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 / |c Joseph Keith. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Neither citizen nor alien : rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- The epistemology of un-belonging : Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy -- Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile : race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity -- The undesirable alien and the politics of form : telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's Mariners, renegades and castaways -- Talking back to the state : Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage -- Conclusion : An empire of alienage. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Citizenship in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00861949 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a American literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Race dans la litterature. | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Litterature americaine |x Auteurs issus des minorites |x Histoire et critique. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Race in literature. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 | |
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