Performing Americanness : race, class, and gender in modern African-American and Jewish-American literature / Catherine Rottenberg.

Contents Introduction : performing Americanness -- Performativity in context -- Passing : race, identification, and desire -- American dream discourse and class performativity -- Race and the making of ethnicity -- Race and the new woman -- A parrot of words and monkey of manners.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.
LCCN 2007037125
ISBN9781584656821 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1584656824 (cloth : alk. paper)

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