Color Me White: Naturalism/Naturalization in American Literature

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6220-1
Verlag: Carl Winter

Buch, Englisch, Band 237, 484 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Reihe: American Studies

This book explores a remarkable parallelism in American literary and legal histories: the parallel between naturalism and naturalization. At the turn of the twentieth century, with the influx of unprecedented waves of immigration, the judiciary is at a loss to define who is “white” and who is not. In the courts of law, “whiteness” becomes a performance of cultural assimilability rather than a biological fact. It is this same cultural code of whiteness, this book argues, around which the literature of naturalism revolves by engaging in naturalization debate of its own.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banerjee, Mita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies