Complicating Constructions:

Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts

Edited by David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker

Seattle: U of Washington P, 2007

ISBN: 9780295986814

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Thank you to our colleagues who submitted proposals for this proposed collection of essays! We received about one hundred submissions from around the world, from which we selected the following, based on individual excellence as well as on each paper's ability to interact with the others.

We are pleased to have been published in 2007 as part of the American Ethnic and Cultural Studies Series of the prestigious University of Washington Press .

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Catalogue page: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/GOLCOC.html.

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List of Essays

TITLE

NAME/INSTITUTION

"CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS AND COLONIAL WHITES: THE CULTURAL WORK OF MARÍA AMPARO RUIZ DE BURTON'S NOVELS"

ALEMÁN, JESSE (U of New Mexico)

"THE COLOR OF MONEY IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN "

BALTER, ARIEL (Independent Scholar)

"TENSION, CONVERSATION, AND COLLECTIVITY: EXAMINING THE SPACE OF DOUBLE-CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE SEARCH FOR SHARED KNOWLEDGE"

MEYER, SHEREE ET AL. (California State U., Sacramento)

"PASSING AS THE 'TRAGIC' MULATTO: CONSTRUCTIONS OF HYBRIDITY IN TONI MORRISON'S NOVELS"

CHRISTIANSEN, ANNAMARIE (Brigham Young U, Hawai'i)

"VISUALIZING RACE IN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT AUTOBIOGRAPHY"

DODGE, GEORGINA (Ohio State U)

"MAUD MARTHA VS. I LOVE LUCY: TAKING ON THE POSTWAR CONSUMER FANTASY"

FLOREANI, TRACY (Baker U)

"READING THE TURNER DIARIES: JEWISH BLACKNESS, JUDAIZED BLACKS, AND HEAD-BODY RACE PARADIGMS"

LOCKARD, JOE (Arizona State U)

"SMALLPOX, OPIUM, AND INVASION: CHINESE INVASION, WHITE GUILT, AND NATIVE AMERICAN DISPLACEMENT IN LATE NINETEENTH- AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION"

MCALLISTER, EDWIN J. (Belhaven C)

"SOME DO, SOME DON'T: WHITENESS THEORY AND THE TREATMENT OF RACE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN DRAMA"

OVER, WILLIAM (St. John's U)

"RE-VIEWING THE LITERARY CHINATOWN: MULTICULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN GISH JEN'S MONA IN THE PROMISED LAND "

PARTRIDGE, JEFFREY F. L. (Central Connecticut State U)

"PORTNOY'S NEGLECTED SIBLINGS: A CASE FOR POSTMODERN JEWISH AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES"

ROYAL, DEREK PARKER (Texas A & M U, Commerce)

"TRAUMATIC LEGACY IN DARRYL PINKNEY'S HIGH COTTON "

SCHULTHEIS, ALEXANDRA W. (George Washington U)

"TESTIFYING BODIES: CITIZENSHIP DEBATES IN BRETT HARTE'S GABRIEL CONROY"

TINNEMEYER, ANDREA (College Preparatory School)

"WHEN HYBRIDITY DOESN'T RESIST: GIANNINA BRASCHI'S YO-YO BOING "

TORRES-PADILLA, JOSE L. (State U of New York, Plattsburgh)

 

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