{"id":33961,"date":"2013-10-01T01:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T01:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33961"},"modified":"2013-10-01T01:18:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T01:18:39","slug":"complicating-constructions-race-ethnicity-hybridity-in-american-texts-american-ethnic-and-cultural-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33961","title":{"rendered":"Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, Hybridity in American Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\/search\/books\/GOLCOC.html\" target=\"_blank\">Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, Hybridity in American Texts<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\" target=\"_blank\">University of Washington Press<\/a><br \/>\n2007-06-15<br \/>\n352 pages<br \/>\nnotes, bibliog., index<br \/>\n6 x 9 in.<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780295988351<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-10: 0295986816; ISBN-13: 978-0295986814<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/books\/9780295800745\" target=\"_blank\">eBook<\/a> ISBN: 9780295800745<\/p>\n<p>Edited by<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/davidgs\/\" target=\"_blank\">David S. Goldstein<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington, Bothell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/profile.php?id=98\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey B. Thacker<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in English<br \/>\n<em>California State University, Northridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\/search\/books\/GOLCOC.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\/covs\/GOLCOC.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This volume of collected essays offers truly multiethnic, historically comparative, and meta-theoretical readings of the literature and culture of the United States. Covering works by a diverse set of American authors\u2014from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toni_Morrison\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Morrison<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bret_Harte\" target=\"_blank\">Bret Harte<\/a>\u2014these essays provide a vital supplement to the critical literary canon, mapping a newly variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between \u201cethnic\u201d and \u201cnonethnic\u201d literatures.<\/p>\n<p>Other contributors include Jesse Alem\u00e1n, Ariel Balter, Olivia Castellano, AnnaMarie Christiansen, Georgina Dodge, Tracy Floreani, Joe Lockard, Edwin J. McAllister, Sheree Meyer, William Over, Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Chauncey Ridley, Derek Parker Royal, Alexander W. Schultheis, Andrea Tinnenmeyer, and Jose L. Torres-Padilla.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Acknowledgments<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>I. Re-Constructing Race and Ethnicity: Identity Imposed or Adopted<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Citizenship Rights and Colonial Whites: The Cultural Work of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton&#8217;s Novels<\/li>\n<li>2. Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte&#8217;s <em>Gabriel Conroy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>3. The Color of Money in <em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li>4. Passing as the &#8220;Tragic&#8221; Mulatto: Constructions of Hybridity in Toni Morrison&#8217;s Novels<\/li>\n<li>5. Re-Viewing the Literary Chinatown: Multicultural Hybridity in Gish Jen&#8217;s <em>Mona in the Promised Land<\/em><\/li>\n<li>6. Reading <em>The Turner Diaries<\/em>: Jewish Blackness, Judaized Blacks, and Head-Body Race Paradigms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>II. Re-Contextualizing Race and Ethnicity: Texts in Historical and Political Perspective<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>7. Smallpox, Opium, and Invasion: Chines Invasion, White Guilt, and Native American Displacement in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction<\/li>\n<li>8. Visualizing Race in American Immigrant Autobiography<\/li>\n<li>9. <em>Maud Martha<\/em> vs. <em>I Love Lucy<\/em>: Taking on the Postwar Consumer Fantasy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>III. Re-Considering Race and Ethnicity: Meta-Issues in Theory and Criticism<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>10. Some Do, Some Don&#8217;t: Whiteness Theory and the Treatment of Race in African American Drama<\/li>\n<li>11. Traumatic Legacy in Darryl Pinckney&#8217;s <em>High Cotton<\/em><\/li>\n<li>12. Portnoy&#8217;s Neglected Siblings: A Case for Postmodern Jewish American Literary Studies<\/li>\n<li>13. Tension, Conversation, and Collectivity: Examining the Space of Double-Consciousness in the Search for Shared Knowledge<\/li>\n<li>14. When Hybridity Doesn&#8217;t Resist: Giannina Braschi&#8217;s <em>Yo-Yo Boing!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributors <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Index<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, Hybridity in American Texts University of Washington Press 2007-06-15 352 pages notes, bibliog., index 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780295988351 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0295986816; ISBN-13: 978-0295986814 eBook ISBN: 9780295800745 Edited by David S. Goldstein, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington, Bothell Audrey B. 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