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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
c2000.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Cultural studies of the United States.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798079306719 |
| Summary: | 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 Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798890870827 9780807860601 |
