Title Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation : Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the

Published London : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (159 pages) Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three "Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four "This Hideous Little Pickaninny" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index Summary This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Emigration and immigration in literature. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism Difference (Psychology) in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. Immigrants in literature. Ethnicity in literature. White people in literature. Race in literature. American literature. American literature -- Women authors. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Emigration and immigration in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Immigrants in literature. Immigrants' writings, American. Passing (Identity) in literature. Race in literature. White people in literature. Women and literature. United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203327722 0203327721

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