Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity,

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--from Toni Morrison to Bret Harte--these essays provide a vital supplement to the critical literary canon, mapping a newly variegated terrain that refuses the distinction between "ethnic" and "non-ethnic" literatures.David S. Goldstein teaches at the University of Washington, Bothell. Audrey B. Thacker teaches at California Lutheran University and California State University, Northridge. Other contributors include Jesse Alemán, 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 José L. Torres-Padilla.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Re-Constructing Race and Ethnicity: Identity Imposed or Adopted
Citizenship Rights and Colonial Whites: The Cultural Work of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Novels	p. 3
Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy	p. 31
The Color of Money in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	p. 48
Passing as the "Tragic" Mulatto: Constructions of Hybridity in Toni Morrison's Novels	p. 74
Re-Viewing the Literary Chinatown: Multicultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land	p. 99
Reading The Turner Diaries: Jewish Blackness, Judaized Blacks, and Head-Body Race Paradigms	p. 121
Re-Contexualizing Race and Ethnicity: Texts in Historical and Political Perspective
Smallpox, Opium, and Invasion: Chinese Invasion, White Guilt, and Native American Displacement in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction	p. 143
Visualizing Race in American Immigrant Autobiography	p. 157
Maud Martha vs. I Love Lucy: Taking on the Postwar Consumer Fantasy	p. 180
Re-Considering Race and Ethnicity: Meta-Issues in Theory and Criticism
Some Do, Some Don't: Whiteness Theory and the Treatment of Race in African American Drama	p. 207
Traumatic Legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High Cotton	p. 227
Portnoy's Neglected Siblings: A Case for Postmodern Jewish American Literary Studies	p. 250
Tension, Conversation, and Collectivity: Examining the Space of Double-Consciousness in the Search for Shared Knowledge	p. 270
When Hybridity Doesn't Resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing!	p. 290
Contributors	p. 309
Index	p. 313
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Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts

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