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The white negress : literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary Lori Harrison-Kahan
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 228 .P35 H37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison-Kahan, Lori.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- African American women authors.
- Jewish women authors--United States.
- Jewish women authors.
- Americanization.
- Immigrants in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
- 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
- Minstrel of the mountain: Zora Neale Hurston and the black-Jewish imaginary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection
- Forrest Performing Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780813547824
- 0813547822
- 9780813547831
- 0813547830
- OCLC:
- 617461706
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
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