Unbecoming Americans [electronic resource] : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2013.Description: xi, 239 pISBN:- 9780813559674 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813559667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813559681 (e-book)
- 810.9/920693 23
- PS153.M56 K44 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- The epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy -- Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity -- The undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways -- Talking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage -- Conclusion: An empire of alienage.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.