The invention of ethnicity / edited by Werner Sollors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sollors, Werner, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Physical Description:

xx, 294 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays chart the cultural constraints of `ethnicity' in American history and culture. Sollors' introductory essay sets the framework for the discussion of ethnicity and the individual essays cover a wide range of topics: Native American, Latin-American, historical Jewish, nineteenth-century American German, American Jewish, Italian, and Afro-American.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

On the Fourth of July in Sitka

Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity

An American Writer

A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses

Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade

Defining the Race 1890-1930

Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self

Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale

Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics

Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives

Comping for Count Basie

Is Ethnicity Obsolete?

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-772469-8

0-19-802149-6

1-280-44007-4

1-60129-666-5

OCLC:

476013676