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Complicating Constructions : Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American Ethnic and Cultural StudiesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295800745
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Complicating ConstructionsDDC classification:
  • 810.9/3552
LOC classification:
  • PS153.M56 -- C65 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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