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Kosnik, Kristin Costello.

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The alien in our nation: Complicating issues of "passing" and miscegenation in the American narrative (Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The alien in our nation: Complicating issues of "passing" and miscegenation in the American narrative (Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison)./
Author:	Kosnik, Kristin Costello.
Description:	220 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Robert G. O'Meally.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-02A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3005745
ISBN:	0493152423

The alien in our nation: Complicating issues of "passing" and miscegenation in the American narrative (Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison).
Kosnik, Kristin Costello.

The alien in our nation: Complicating issues of "passing" and miscegenation in the American narrative (Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison). - 220 p.

Adviser: Robert G. O'Meally.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2001.

This study examines the complexity of racial “passing” beyond the presumed arithmetic of the black-white dualism of modern America. Encompassing works from the mid-nineteenth century through contemporary American literature, I argue that racial “passing” is as much a negotiation of American citizenship for black and mixed race Americans as it is a secret attempt to cross America's “color-line” from black to white. Chapter 1 sets the stage for the project with a discussion of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel <italic>Uncle Tom's Cabin</italic>, specifically the scene in which light-skinned black George Harris decides to leave the United States to establish a home in Africa rather than “to pass for an American.” Harris's statement of resistance to American identity, notably using the term “passing,” significantly shifts the assumption of “passing” in American culture from implying “a black person who passes for white” to what <italic> The Alien in Our Nation</italic> argues is the more complex and explosive notion of a black person or person of mixed race who refuses to pass for American.

ISBN: 0493152423Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

The alien in our nation: Complicating issues of "passing" and miscegenation in the American narrative (Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison).
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