The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era

ISBN-13: 9780415949316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 156 str.

Linda Joyce Brown; Brown Joyce Brown; Linda Joyce Brown

Opis

This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

List of Figures
Preface: Questioning Whiteness
1. Introduction: Race, Whiteness and Women Immigrants
2. Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation
3. "Why Couldn't We Have been Either One Thing or the Other?": Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far
4. "This Hideous Little Pickaninny" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism and Willa Cather's My Antonia
5. Epilogue: Assimilation and Re-Racialization of Immigrant Bodies

O autorze

Linda Joyce Brown