Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars

Acknowledgments

BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page vii / / Strangers at Home / Rita Keresztesi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [First Page] [-7], (1) Lines: 0 to 18 ——— 0.0pt PgVar ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [-7], (1) Acknowledgments This book bears some resemblance to my 1999 dissertation of a similar title from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I would like to thank all who have helped making this book happen. The initial planning of the dissertation took place in Santa Cruz, but I wrote the bulk of it in New Mexico, and I made the crucial changes and revisions of turning the dissertation into a book at the University of Oklahoma. In the early stages of the planning and writing I received indispensable help and advice from my dissertation committee: Susan Gillman, Dick Terdiman, Thomas Vogler, and Hayden White at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I thank them all for giving me the perfect combination of freedom and guidance , of trust and critique. Their examples of mentorship and friendship have become models for my dealings with graduate students here at the University of Oklahoma. The three years I spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico, writing my dissertation while on a leave of absence from ucsc brought me the needed solitude and discipline to turn the notes and vague ideas into a dissertation that I could conceive of turning into a book later. I would like to thank Louis Owens who is not here anymore to read this note. His friendship and serendipitous guidance came at just the right time to make me see that the project was of interest and not only to me. Since I came to the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 2000, I have received tremendous support and guidance from my colleagues. I would like to thank them all,but my special gratitude is for Daniel Cottom,Catherine Hobbs, Melissa Homestead, Catherine John, Susan Kates, Vincent Leitch, David Mair, Francesca Sawaya, and Ronald Schleifer. They have each given me wonderful support and plenty of useful advice to see me through this process. I am grateful that they are not only my colleagues but also my friends. Parts of this book appeared in earlier versions in Literature and Racial Ambiguity , edited by Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks (copyright 2002 by Rodopi and reprinted by permission) and in Doubled Plots: Romance and History, edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (copyright 2003 by the University Press BOB — University of Nebraska Press / Page viii / / Strangers at Home / Rita Keresztesi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [-8], (2) Lines: 18 to 24 ——— * 309.58002pt PgVar ——— Normal Page * PgEnds: PageBreak [-8], (2) of Mississippi and reprinted by permission). I am grateful for the permission to reuse this material. Ladette Randolph, the associate director at the University of Nebraska Press was a wonderful advocate for getting this book published from the very beginning since our first meeting at the 1999 mla convention in Chicago. She was prompt and admirably professional at each stage of production. I am forever grateful to her; thank you. I would also like to thank my two readers, Werner Sollors and William Boelhower, both of whose works and scholarship had been inspirational and fundamentally influential to my own research and interests. I am honored that they both agreed to read the manuscript, and I thank them both for their generosity in offering careful comments and suggestions in their readers’ reports. I would also like to thank my parents, who are still back in Hungary and whom I do miss: my father, Keresztesi Miklós, and my mother, Biró Amália. And finally, I would like to thank my son, Jacob Aronson, for just being there: for being patient and supportive of his mom. He is just the best, the son every mother can only wish for. viii acknowledgments ...