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Unbecoming Americans : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960

Title
Unbecoming Americans : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.
Author
Keith, Joseph.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.

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Description
xi, 239 p.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 13-91
ISBN
  • 9780813559674 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0813559677 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813559667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813559669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780813559681 (e-book)
  • 0813559685 (e-book)
LCCN
2012012095
OCLC
782128062
Author
Keith, Joseph.
Title
Unbecoming Americans : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.
Imprint
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 13-91
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