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Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, About the Series, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultural Narratives and American Identities
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. Chapter 2: The Land of Plenty: American Mass Culture and the Literary Immigrant in C. Y. Lee’s The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
  2. pp. 23-46
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  1. Chapter 3: What’s for Sale: Consumer Fantasy, American Women, and Social Mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha and the I Love Lucy Show
  2. pp. 47-72
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  1. Chapter 4: The Celluloid Fantasy: Negotiating the Ethnic Male Star Image in William Saroyan’s Rock Wagram
  2. pp. 73-100
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  1. Chapter 5: Leaving the Dark Room in a Lighter Mood: Narrating Invisibility in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
  2. pp. 101-136
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  1. Epilogue
  2. pp. 137-142
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 143-162
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 163-172
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 173-179
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  1. Back Cover
  2. p. 191
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