Title: Performing Americanness : race, class, and gender in modern African-American and Jewish-American literature /
Authors: Rottenberg, Catherine
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England,
Year: 2008
Subjects: American literature Minority authors History and criticism; Jewish literature United States.; American literature Jewish authors; American literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Race in literature.; Religion in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Minorities in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature.
Contents: Introduction : performing Americanness -- Performativity in context -- Passing : race, identification, and desire -- American dream discourse and class performativity -- Race and the making of ethnicity -- Race and the new woman -- A parrot of words and monkey of manners.