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008			130716s2013 nju ob 001 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aPS153 _b.U534 2013
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100	1		_aKeith, Joseph. _e1
245	1	0	_aUnbecoming Americans _bwriting race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / _cJoseph Keith.
260			_aNew Brunswick, N.J. : _bRutgers University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing to represent the iconic ideal of immigrant America, came to symbolize its very limits. Unbecoming Americans sets out to recover the shadow narratives of un-American writers forged out of the racial and political limits of citizenship. In this collection of Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, and African-American writers--C.L.R. James, Carlos Bulosan, Claudia Jones, and Richard Wright--Joseph Keith examines how they used their exclusion from the nation, a condition he terms "alienage," as a standpoint from which to imagine alternative global solidarities and to interrogate the contradictions of the United States as a country, a republic, and an empire at the dawn of "The American Century." Building on scholarship linking the forms of the novel to those of the nation, the book explores how these writers employed alternative aesthetic forms, including memoir, cultural criticism, and travel narrative, to contest prevailing notions of race, nation, and citizenship. Ultimately they produced a vital counter-discourse of freedom in opposition to the new formations of empire emerging in the years after World War II, forms that continue to shape our world today."--Publisher's website.
505	0	0	_aNeither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- _tThe epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy -- _tRichard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity -- _tThe undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways -- _tTalking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage -- _tConclusion: An empire of alienage.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xMinority authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aImmigrants' writings, American _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCitizenship in literature.
650		0	_aRace in literature.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aAmerican Literatures Initiative.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=608750&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell