Joseph Keith

Unbecoming Americans

Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies a canon of writers who, during the years after World War II, explored forms of belonging in the world outside the domain of modern citizenship. It examines works by C.L.R. James, Richard Wright, Claudia Jones, and Carlos Bulos that show how these writers employed aesthetic alternative forms to the novel, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780813559667
• ISBN-10: 0813559669
• Artikelnr.: 36146890

Autorenporträt

JOSEPH KEITH is an assistant professor of English at Binghamton University, SUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shadow Narratives of the Transnational
Part I. Novel Forms: Writing at the Limits of Citizenship
1. Neither Citizen nor Alien: Rewriting the Immigrant Bildungsroman across
the Borders of Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart
2. The Epistemology of Unbelonging: Richard Wright's The Outsider and the
Politics of Secrecy
Part II. Peripheral Forms: Literatures of Alienage, Incarceration, and
Deportation
3. Richard Wright's Cosmopolitan Exile: Race, Decolonization, and the
Dialogics of Modernity
4. The Undesirable Alien and the Politics of Form: Telling Untold Tales in
C. L. R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
5. Talking Back to the State: Claudia Jones's Radical Forms of Alienage
Conclusion: An Empire of Alienage
Notes
Index