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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Browder, Laura, 1963- Slippery characters. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606302209 Online version: Browder, Laura, 1963- Slippery characters. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000 (OCoLC)607746454 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laura Browder |
| ISBN: | 0807825468 9780807825464 080784859X 9780807848593 |
| OCLC Number: | 42716959 |
| Description: | xii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Cultural studies of the United States. |
| Responsibility: | Laura Browder. |
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- American prose literature -- History and criticism.
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- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- Impersonation in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Imitatie.
- Etnisch bewustzijn.
- Autobiografieën.
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- Literatur
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