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  1. Slippery Characters
    Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
    Author: Browder, Laura
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in... more

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    In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities.Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780807860601
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages)
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  2. Slippery characters
    ethnic impersonators and American identities
    Author: Browder, Laura
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of... more

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    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0807860603; 9780807860601
    RVK Categories: HR 1841
    Series: Cultural studies of the United States
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 312 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index
  3. Slippery characters
    ethnic impersonators and American identities
    Author: Browder, Laura
    Published: c2000
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 0807860603; 9780807860601
    RVK Categories: HR 1841
    Series: Cultural studies of the United States
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Imitatie; Etnisch bewustzijn; Autobiografieën; Geschichte; American prose literature; Autobiography; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Impostors and imposture in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Group identity in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Impersonation in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Self in literature; Hochstapler; Autobiografie; Ethnische Gruppe; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 312 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index

    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity

    Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity -- Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies -- Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood -- One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians -- The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger -- Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America -- Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness -- To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town -- Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography
  4. Slippery characters
    ethnic impersonators and American identities
    Author: Browder, Laura
    Published: c2000
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of... more

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    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0807860603; 9780807860601
    Series: Cultural studies of the United States
    Subjects: Literary forgeries and mystifications; Impostors and imposture in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Group identity in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Impersonation in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Self in literature; Autobiography; American prose literature
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index

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    Slave narratives and the problem of authenticityStaged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies -- Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood -- One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians -- The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger -- Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America -- Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness -- To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town -- Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography.
  5. Slippery characters
    ethnic impersonators and American identities
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of... more

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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    This work examines the tradition of ethnic impersonators in the United States. It looks at works such as Welsh Baptist Elizabeth Stern's immigrant narrative "I am a Woman - and a Jew", and uncovers their surprising influence on American notions of identity

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0807860603; 9780807860601
    Series: Cultural studies of the United States
    Subjects: American prose literature; Autobiography; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Impostors and imposture in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Group identity in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Impersonation in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Self in literature; American prose literature; Autobiography; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Group identity in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Impersonation in literature; Impostors and imposture in literature; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Passing (Identity) in literature; Self in literature
    Scope: Online Ressource (xii, 312 p.), ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-304) and index. - Description based on print version record

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