Color Me White
Naturalism/Naturalization in American Literature
by Mita Banerjee
Hardback (Published)
(October 2013)
ISBN: 9783825362201
5.31 x 8.31 inches
Price: $75.00
In stock
This book explores a remarkable parallelism in American literary and legal histories: the parallel between naturalism and naturalization. At the turn of the twentieth century, with the influx of unprecedented waves of immigration, the judiciary is at a loss to define who is “white” and who is not. In the courts of law, “whiteness” becomes a performance of cultural assimilability rather than a biological fact. It is this same cultural code of whiteness, this book argues, around which the literature of naturalism revolves by engaging in naturalization debate of its own.
- By (author) Mita Banerjee
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