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The white negress : literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary

Title
The white negress : literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary / Lori Harrison-Kahan.
Author
Harrison-Kahan, Lori.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.

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Description
229 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Passing (Identity) in literature
  • Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • Ethnicity in literature
  • African American women authors
  • Jewish women authors > United States
  • Americanization
  • Immigrants in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From White Negress to Yiddishe Mama: Sophie Tucker and the Female Blackface Tradition -- The Same Show Boat? Edna Ferber's Interracial Ideal -- Limitations of White: Fannie Hurst and the Consumption of Blackness -- Moses and Minstrelsy: Zora Neale Hurston and the Black-Jewish Imaginary.
Call Number
Sc E 11-461
ISBN
  • 9780813547824
  • 0813547822
  • 0813547830
  • 9780813547831
OCLC
617461706
Author
Harrison-Kahan, Lori.
Title
The white negress : literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary / Lori Harrison-Kahan.
Imprint
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 11-461
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