Unbecoming Americans
Keith, Joseph.
Unbecoming Americans writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / [electronic resource] : Joseph Keith. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- The epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy -- Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity -- The undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways -- Talking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage -- Conclusion: An empire of alienage.
9780813559681 0813559685
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Race in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / K44 2013
810.9/920693
Unbecoming Americans writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / [electronic resource] : Joseph Keith. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- The epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy -- Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity -- The undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways -- Talking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage -- Conclusion: An empire of alienage.
9780813559681 0813559685
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Race in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / K44 2013
810.9/920693