Unbecoming Americans [electronic resource] : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)ISBN:- 9780813559681
- 0813559685
- 810.9/920693 23
- PS153.M56 K44 2013
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.
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