Performing Americanness
Subtitle: race, class, and gender in modern African-American and Jewish-American literature
By: Catherine Rottenberg.
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781584656821
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 21st century -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : performing Americanness; title: Performativity in context; title: Passing : race, identification, and desire; title: American dream discourse and class performativity; title: Race and the making of ethnicity; title: Race and the new woman; title: A parrot of words and monkey of manners.