Slippery characters ethnic impersonators and American identities
In the 1920's, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990's, Asa Carter, George Walla...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
c2000.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Cultural studies of the United States.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798079306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Slave Narratives and the Problem of Authenticity; 2. Staged Ethnicities: Laying the Groundwork for Ethnic Impersonator Autobiographies; 3. Writing American: California Novels of Brown People and White Nationhood; 4. One Hundred Percent American: How a Slave, a Janitor, and a Former Klansman Escaped Racial Categories by Becoming Indians; 5. The Immigrant's Answer to Horatio Alger; 6. Passing As Poor: Class Imposture in Depression America; 7. Postwar Blackface: How Middle-Class White Americans Became Authentic through Blackness
- 8. To Pass Is To Survive: Danny Santiago's Famous All Over Town Conclusion: Rewriting the Ethnic Autobiography; Notes; Bibliography; Index
