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The white negress

Harrison-Kahan, Lori.

The white negress literature, minstrelsy, and the black-Jewish imaginary / [electronic resource] : Lori Harrison-Kahan. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011. - viii, 229 p. : ill. - American Literatures Initiative . - American Literatures Initiative. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Minstrel of the mountain: Zora Neale Hurston and the black-Jewish imaginary.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






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


Electronic books.

PS228.P35 / H37 2011eb

810.9/3529

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