Unbecoming Americans [electronic resource] : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.

By: Keith, JosephContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013Description: xi, 239 pISBN: 9780813559681 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism | Immigrants' writings, American -- History and criticism | Citizenship in literature | Race in literature | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/920693 LOC classification: PS153.M56 | K44 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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