TY - BOOK AU - Keith,Joseph ED - Project Muse. TI - Unbecoming Americans: writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 SN - 9780813559681 AV - PS153.M56 K44 2013 U1 - 810.9/920693 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New Brunswick, NJ PB - Rutgers University Press KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Race in literature KW - Citizenship in literature KW - Immigrants' writings, American KW - Minority authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813559681/ ER -