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Title Complicating constructions [electronic resource] : race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts / edited by David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker.

Imprint Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

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Description xxviii, 320 p. : ill.
Series American ethnic and cultural studies
American ethnic and cultural studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Citizenship rights and colonial whites: the cultural work of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's novels / Jesse Aleman -- Testifying bodies: citizenship debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy / Andrea Tinnemeyer -- The color of money in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Ariel Balter -- Passing as the "tragic" mulatto: constructions of hybridity in Toni Morrison's novels / AnnaMarie Christiansen -- Re-viewing the literary Chinatown: multicultural hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Jeffrey F. L. Partridge -- Reading The Turner diaries: Jewish blackness, judaized blacks, and head-body race paradigms / Joe Lockard -- Smallpox, opium, and invasion: Chinese invasion, white guilt, and Native American displacement in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction / Edwin J. McAllister -- Visualizing race in American immigrant autobiography / Georgina Dodge -- Maud Martha vs. I love Lucy: taking on the postwar consumer fantasy / Tracy Floreani -- Some do, some don't: whiteness theory and the treatment of race in African American drama / William Over -- Traumatic legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High cotton / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- Portnoy's neglected siblings: a case for postmodern Jewish American literary studies / Derek Parker Royal -- Tension, conversation, and collectivity: examining the space of double consciousness in the search for shared knowledge / Sheree Meyer, Chauncey Ridley, & Olivia Castellano -- When hybridity doesn't resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-yo boing! / Jose L. Torres-Padilla.
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.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Goldstein, David S.
Thacker, Audrey B.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780295986814 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0295986816 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780295988351
9780295800745 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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