{"product_id":"unbecoming-americans-writing-race-and-nation-from-the-shadows-of-citizenship-19451960-american-literatures-initiative-9780813559667","title":"Unbecoming Americans Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship 19451960 American Literatures Initiative","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a great book, valuable for the light it sheds on a little known period in American literary history as well as for the way it rereads these texts. For students of narratives, official and otherwise, it is a compelling reminder of how stories function as the scaffolding on which we build our understandings.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Journal of American Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"Joseph Keith compellingly demonstrates how a select group of authors fashioned\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea radical cosmopolitan literary tradition at the subaltern limits of U.S. citizenship that subverted racial logics, reimagined the state, and addressed the question of 'how shall the human race be organized?'\" -- Donald Pease * author of The New American Exceptionalism *\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly original work that is grounded in compelling literary and historical analysis. \u003ci\u003eUnbecoming Americans\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates Cold War America and U.S. critical race theory with insights drawn from subaltern historiography and postcolonial theory.\" -- David Lloyd * author of Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000 *\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling book. \u003ci\u003eUnbecoming Americans\u003c\/i\u003e is built on the hope that reading, language, and form have the subversivepotential to promote new ideas.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Modern Language Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnbecoming Americans\u003c\/i\u003e provides a sophisticated synthesis of disparate texts, highlights the significance of discursive critique during the early years of the Cold War, and encourages scholars to investigate other neglected works in search of both alternative perspectives of social discourse and alternative conceptions of the social itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Reviews in Cultural Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\"Keith has engaged an interesting topic that literary and cultural studies scholars will savor.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnbecoming Americans\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to the study of mid-century and Cold War American culture, as it reveals to us in new ways how political history and literary form intersect at the dawn of the American century.\" * Literature and History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Its overall value lies in its nuanced attention to how an outsider status can function as a corrective to US exceptionalism and engender a mode of resistance. [\u003ci\u003eUnbecoming Americans\u003c\/i\u003e] is not only timely—it is academically significant and politically germane.\" * MELUS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Shadow Narratives of the Transnational\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Novel Forms: Writing at the Limits of Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Neither Citizen nor Alien: Rewriting the Immigrant Bildungsroman across the Borders of Empire in Carlos Bulosan's \u003ci\u003eAmerica Is in the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. The Epistemology of Unbelonging: Richard Wright's \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e and the Politics of Secrecy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Peripheral Forms: Literatures of Alienage, Incarceration, and Deportation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Richard Wright's Cosmopolitan Exile: Race, Decolonization, and the Dialogics of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e4. The Undesirable Alien and the Politics of Form: Telling Untold Tales in C. L. R. James's \u003ci\u003eMariners, Renegades, and Castaways\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Talking Back to the State: Claudia Jones's Radical Forms of Alienage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: An Empire of Alienage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768155341143,"sku":"9780813559667","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813559667.jpg?v=1758716597","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unbecoming-americans-writing-race-and-nation-from-the-shadows-of-citizenship-19451960-american-literatures-initiative-9780813559667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}