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Rough Writing - Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,728
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Rough Writing - Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America (Hardcover): Aviva F. Taubenfeld

Rough Writing - Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America (Hardcover)

Aviva F. Taubenfeld

Series: Nation of Nations

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aRough Writing is much more than a fascinating account of the little-known relationship between an American president and the immigrant authors whose work he promoted in the service of a new national narrative. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, Rough Writing enables us to see a vital period in American literature through new eyes.a
--Laura Browder, author of "Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities"

As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who and what an American is took on urgent intensity. It seemed more critical than ever to establish a definition by which Americanness could be established, transmitted, maintained, and judged. Americans of all stripes sought to articulate and enforce their visions of the nationas past, present, and future; central to these attempts was President Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt fully recognized the narrative component of American identity, and he called upon authors of diverse European backgrounds including Israel Zangwill, Jacob Riis, Elizabeth Stern, and Finley Peter Dunne to promote the nation in popular written form. With the swell and shift in immigration, he realized that a more encompassing national literature was needed to aexpress and guide the soul of the nation.a Rough Writing examines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in Rooseveltas America and American literature.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Nation of Nations
Release date: November 2008
First published: November 2008
Authors: Aviva F. Taubenfeld
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-8290-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
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LSN: 0-8147-8290-6
Barcode: 9780814782903

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