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thorough and intelligent study of a uniquely American literary tradition. Laura Browder was the first to observe how free Americans have felt to create startlingly new ethnic identities for themselves by the simple (or complex) act of writing an autobiography

thorough and intelligent study of a uniquely American literary tradition. Laura Browder was the first to observe how free Americans have felt to create startlingly new ethnic identities for themselves by the simple (or complex) act of writing an autobiography. It's a great idea, and Slippery Characters is a splendid book. Series: Cultural Studies of the United States.

The ethnic subject is recognized in political and popular discourses insofar as s/he resembles the stereotype of his or her ethnicity (Browder, 2000; Chow, 2002; Fusco, 1995).

Estudio de una serie de memorias norteamericanas, cuyos autores las han escrito como vías para abandonar identidades no deseadas y adscribirse a una nueva identidad. The ethnic subject is recognized in political and popular discourses insofar as s/he resembles the stereotype of his or her ethnicity (Browder, 2000; Chow, 2002; Fusco, 1995). It is this underlying logic of pluralism and fixed ethnic difference, however that Peters plays against in ethnolinguistic self- mimicry.

Home Browse Books Book details, Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. In the history of the United States, slavery most clearly illustrated the clash between the American precept that all men are born free and equal and the reality that race determined class status. Southern apologists for slavery in the antebellum period employed a variety of pseudoscientific and religious theories to point to Africans' suitability as slaves and their inability to hold equal status with whites.

Slippery Characters book. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (Cultural Studies of the United States). 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. 080784859X (ISBN13: 9780807848593).

Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Slippery Characters - Laura Browder. Through reading ethnic autobiographies, from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) to Black Boy (1937) to Woman Warrior (1976), Americans have been outraged, stirred, and sometimes moved to action. Both the reader and the writer of an ethnic autobiography understand the implied contract: the memoirist is not telling his or her own story as much as the story of a people.

Slippery Characters : Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. thorough and intelligent study of a uniquely American literary tradition. Spectator" Browder's focus on ethnic impersonations is fresh and revealing

Slippery Characters : Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Spectator" Browder's focus on ethnic impersonations is fresh and revealing. Miles Orvell, Temple University YA thorough and intelligent study of a uniquely American literary tradition. Spectator" "Slippery Characters" is a splendid book. Miles Orvell, Temple University" ""Slippery Characters" is a splendid book

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