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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 “nonethnic” literatures.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xiii-xxviii
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  1. I. Re-Constructing Race and Ethnicity: Identity Imposed or Adopted
  1. 1. Citizenship Rights and Colonial Whites: The Cultural Work of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Novels
  2. pp. 3-30
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  1. 2. Testifying Bodies: Citizenship Debates in Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy
  2. pp. 31-47
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  1. 3. The Color of Money in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  2. pp. 48-73
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  1. 4. Passing as the "Tragic" Mulatto: Constructions of Hybridity in Toni Morrison's Novels
  2. pp. 74-98
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  1. 5. Re-Viewing the Literary Chinatown: Multicultural Hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land
  2. pp. 99-120
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  1. 6. Reading The Turner Diaries: Jewish Blackness, Judaized Blacks, and Head-Body Race Paradigms
  2. pp. 121-140
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  1. II. Re-Contextualizing Race and Ethnicity: Texts in Historical and Political Perspective
  1. 7. Smallpox, Opium, and Invasion: Chines Invasion, White Guilt, and Native American Displacement in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction
  2. pp. 143-156
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  1. 8. Visualizing Race in American Immigrant Autobiography
  2. pp. 157-179
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  1. 9. Maud Martha vs. I Love Lucy: Taking on the Postwar Consumer Fantasy
  2. pp. 180-204
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  1. III. Re-Considering Race and Ethnicity: Meta-Issues in Theory and Criticism
  1. 10. Some Do, Some Don't: Whiteness Theory and the Treatment of Race in African American Drama
  2. pp. 207-226
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  1. 11. Traumatic Legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High Cotton
  2. pp. 227-249
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  1. 12. Portnoy's Neglected Siblings: A Case for Postmodern Jewish American Literary Studies
  2. pp. 250-269
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  1. 13. Tension, Conversation, and Collectivity: Examining the Space of Double-Consciousness in the Search for Shared Knowledge
  2. pp. 270-289
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  1. 14. When Hybridity Doesn't Resist: Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing!
  2. pp. 290-308
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 309-312
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 313-320
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