The white negress - Literature, minstrelry and the Black-Jewish imaginary (Paperback)

During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an attraction to African American culture. Until now, the debate about whether such black-Jewish encounters thwarted or enabled Jews' claims to white privilege has focused on men and representations of masculinity while ignoring questions of women and femininity. The White Negress investigates literary and cultural texts by Jewish and African American women, opening new avenues of inquiry that yield more complex stories about Jewishness, African American identity, and the meanings of whiteness. Lori Harrison-Kahan examines writings by Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as the blackface performances of vaudevillian Sophie Tucker and controversies over the musical and film adaptations of Show Boat and Imitation of Life. Moving between literature and popular culture, she illuminates how the dynamics of interethnic exchange have at once produced and undermined the binary of black and white.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The American Literatures Initiative
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	Lori Harrison-Kahan
Dimensions:	231 x 153 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-4783-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-8135-4783-0
Barcode:	9780813547831

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