At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness in Literature and Performance

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Race for Whiteness in the Twentieth Century xi La Vinia Delois Jennings Part I Literature Argentina White 1 Amy Kaminsky A Dream of a White Vienna after World War I: Hugo Bettauer’s The City without Jews and The Blue Stain 29 Peter Höyng From “Yélida” to Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas: Gendering Resistance to Whiteness in the Dominican Republic 61 Dawn Duke Romancing Whiteness: Popular Appalachian Fiction and the Imperialist Imagination at the Turns of Two Centuries 93 Emily Satterwhite The Threat to Whiteness: White Women’s Marital Betrayals in Colonial Settings 119 Suzanne Leonard Part II Performance The Suspect Whiteness of Spain 147 Baltasar Fra-Molinero The Myth of Whiteness and a Changing Italy: Historic Memory and Colonialist Attitudes in Lamerica 171 Renée D’Elia-Zunino “Claiming”: White Ambition, Multiracial Identity, and the New American Racial Passing 197 Meredith McCarroll Beyond the White Negro: Eminem, Danny Hoch, and Race Treason in Contemporary America 221 Kimberly Chabot Davis Stalling Zion: Hegemony, Whiteness, and Racial Discourse in the Matrix Phenomenon 255 Douglas A. Cunningham Contributors 285 Index 289 ...