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Author:

Harrison-Kahan, Lori.

Title:

The white negress : literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary / Lori Harrison-Kahan.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Ethnicity in literature.
African American women authors.
Jewish women authors--United States.
Americanization.
Immigrants in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

From White Negress to Yiddishe Mama: Sophie Tucker and the Female Blackface Tradition -- The Same Show Boat? Edna Ferber's Interracial Ideal -- Limitations of White: Fannie Hurst and the Consumption of Blackness -- Moses and Minstrelsy: Zora Neale Hurston and the Black-Jewish Imaginary.

ISBN:

9780813547831
0813547830
0813547822
9780813547824

OCLC:

(OCoLC)617461706

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)