Title Slippery characters : ethnic impersonators and American identities / Laura Browder

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations Series Cultural studies of the United States Cultural studies of the United States. Contents Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity -- Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies -- Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood -- One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians -- The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger -- Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America -- Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness -- To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town -- Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography Summary This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American prose literature -- History and criticism Autobiography. Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History Impostors and imposture in literature. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. Group identity in literature. Ethnic groups in literature. Impersonation in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Self in literature. autobiography (genre) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American prose literature -- History and criticism. Autobiography. Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History. Impostors and imposture in literature. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. Group identity in literature. Ethnic groups in literature. Impersonation in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Self in literature. American prose literature Autobiography Difference (Psychology) in literature Ethnic groups in literature Ethnicity in literature Group identity in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Impersonation in literature Impostors and imposture in literature Literary forgeries and mystifications Passing (Identity) in literature Self in literature Imitatie. Etnisch bewustzijn. Autobiografieën. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 99053732 ISBN 9780807825464 0807825468 0807860603 9780807860601

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