Unbecoming Americans
Subtitle: writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960
By: Joseph Keith
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780813559674; 9780813559667; 9780813559681
Subjects: Citizenship in literature; Minority authors; Immigrants' writings, American; History and criticism; American literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart; title: The epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy; title: Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity; title: The undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways; title: Talking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage; title: Conclusion: An empire of alienage.