TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldstein,David S.
AU  - Thacker,Audrey B.
TI  - Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts
T2  - American Ethnic and Cultural Studies
SN  - 9780295800745
AV  - PS153.M56 -- C65 2007eb 
U1  - 810.9/3552 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
KW  - American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - Ethnicity in literature
KW  - Minorities in literature
KW  - Ethnic groups in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / David S. Goldstein -- I. Re-Constructing Race and Ethnicity: Identity Imposed or Adopted -- 1. Citizenship Rights and Colonial Whites: The Cultural Work of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Novels / Jesse Aleman -- 2. Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's "Gabriel Conroy" / Andrea Tinnemeyer -- 3. The Color of Money in "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" / Ariel Balter -- 4. Passing as the "Tragic" Mulatto: Constructions of Hybridity in Toni Morrison's Novels / Annamarie Christiansen -- 5. Re-Viewing the Literary Chinatown: Multicultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's "Mona in the Promised Land" / Jeffrey F. L. Partridge -- 6. Reading "The Turner Diaries" : Jewish Blackness, Judaized Blacks, and Head-Body Race Paradigms / Joe Lockard -- II. Re-Contextualizing Race and Ethnicity: Texts in Historical and Political Perspective -- 7. Smallpox, Opium, and Invasion: Chines Invasion, White Guilt, and Native American Displacement in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction / Edwin J. McAllister -- 8. Visualizing Race in American Immigrant Autobiography / Georgina Dodge -- 9. "Maud Martha vs. I Love Lucy" : Taking on the Postwar Consumer Fantasy / Tracy Floreani -- III. Re-Considering Race and Ethnicity: Meta-Issues in Theory and Criticism -- 10. "Some Do, Some Don't" : Whiteness Theory and the Treatment of Race in African American Drama / William Over -- 11. Traumatic Legacy in Darryl Pinckney's "High Cotton" / Alexandra W. Schultheis -- 12. Portnoy's Neglected Siblings: A Case for Postmodern Jewish American Literary Studies / Derek Parker Royal -- 13. Tension, Conversation, and Collectivity: Examining the Space of Double-Consciousness in the Search for Shared Knowledge / Sheree Meyer, Chauncey A. Ridley and Olivia Castellano; 14. When Hybridity Doesn't Resist: Giannina Braschi's "Yo-Yo Boing!" / Jose L. Torres-Padilla -- Contributors -- Index
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