Slippery characters :ethnic impersonators and American identities
- 作者: Browder, Laura,
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2000.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Cultural studies of the United States
- 標題: Literary forgeries and mystifications , Imitatie. , Autobiography. , Self in literature. , Impostors and imposture in literature. , Autobiografieën. , Etnisch bewustzijn. , Ethnic groups in literature. , History. , American prose literature History and criticism. , Electronic book. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Literary forgeries and mystifications. , Group identity in literature. , Literary forgeries and mystifications History. , History and criticism. , American prose literature. , American prose literature , Impersonation in literature. , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Difference (Psychology) in literature. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Electronic books. , Ethnicity in literature. , AmericanGeneral. , Passing (Identity) in literature. , Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- ISBN: 0807860603 , 9780807860601
- ISBN: 0807825468 , 9780807825464 , 080784859X , 9780807848593
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index. Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity -- Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies -- Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood -- One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians -- The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger -- Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America -- Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness -- To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town -- Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography.
- 摘要: This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity.
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In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities. Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.
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