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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keith, Joseph
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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