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Author Keith, Joseph.

Title Unbecoming Americans [electronic resource] : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.

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Description xi, 239 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Citizenship in literature.
Race in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813559674 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813559667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813559681 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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