| Color Me White: Naturalism/Naturalization in American Literature Contributor(s): Banerjee, Mita (Author) |
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ISBN: 3825362205 ISBN-13: 9783825362201 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $75.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Series: American Studies - A Monograph |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" (1.49 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
