Complicating constructions
Subtitle: race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts
By: edited by David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker
Contributors: Goldstein, David S; Thacker, Audrey B
Series: American ethnic and cultural studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780295986814
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Citizenship rights and colonial whites: the cultural work of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's novels / Jesse Alemán; title: Testifying bodies: citizenship debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy / Andrea Tinnemeyer; title: The color of money in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Ariel Balter; title: Passing as the "tragic" mulatto: constructions of hybridity in Toni Morrison's novels / AnnaMarie Christiansen; title: Re-viewing the literary Chinatown: multicultural hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Jeffrey F. L. Partridge; title: Reading The Turner diaries: Jewish blackness, judaized blacks, and head-body race paradigms / Joe Lockard; title: Smallpox, opium, and invasion: Chinese invasion, white guilt, and Native American displacement in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction / Edwin J. McAllister; title: Visualizing race in American immigrant autobiography / Georgina Dodge; title: Maud Martha vs. I love Lucy: taking on the postwar consumer fantasy / Tracy Floreani; title: Some do, some don't: whiteness theory and the treatment of race in African American drama / William Over; title: Traumatic legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High cotton / Alexandra W. Schultheis; title: Portnoy's neglected siblings: a case for postmodern Jewish American literary studies / Derek Parker Royal; title: Tension, conversation, and collectivity: examining the space of double consciousness in the search for shared knowledge / Sheree Meyer, Chauncey Ridley, & Olivia Castellano; title: When hybridity doesn't resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-yo boing! / José L. Torres-Padilla