At home and abroad : historicizing twentieth-century whiteness in literature and performance / edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jennings, La Vinia Delois.

Series:

Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 44.

Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Race awareness in literature.

White people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical exigencies to whiten themselves.Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or per

Contents:

Introduction: The race for whiteness in the twentieth century / La Vinia Delois Jennings

Argentina White / Amy Kaminsky

A dream of a white Vienna after World War I: Hugo Bettauer's The city without Jews and The blue stain / Peter Höyng

From "Yeʹlida" to Movimiento de mujeres Dominico-Haitianas: gendering resistance to whiteness in the Dominican Republic / Dawn Duke

Romancing whiteness: popular Appalachian fiction and the imperialist imagination at the turns of two centuries / Emily Satterwhite

The threat to whiteness: white women's marital betrayals in colonial settings / Suzanne Leonard

The suspect whiteness of Spain / Baltasar Fra-Molinero

The myth of whiteness and a changing Italy: historic memory and colonialist attitudes in Lamerica / Reneʹe DʹEliz-Zunino

"Claiming": White ambition, multiracial identity, and the new American racial passing / Meredith McCarroll

Beyond the white Negro: eminem, Danny Hoch, and race treason in contemporary America / Kimberly Chabot Davis

Stalling Zion: hegemony, whiteness, and racial discourse in the matrix phenomenon / Douglas A. Cunningham.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613098580

9781283098588

128309858X

9781572337442

1572337443

OCLC:

699513546