Beyond the binary : reconstructing cultural identity in a multicultural context / edited by Timothy B. Powell.
| Other author | Powell, Timothy B., 1959- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1999. |
| Description | ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: re-thinking cultural identity / Timothy B. Powell. -- Nation, class, and physical minorities / Lennard J. Davis. -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation / Michael Davidson. -- "An essential friendship": African Americans and Caribbean immigrants in Harlem / Heather Hathaway. -- Narratives of deviance and delight: staring at Julia Pastrana, the "extraordinary Lady" / Rosemarie Garland Thomson. -- "One hundred percent American" : How a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians / Laura Browder. -- "From this moment forth, we are black lesbians": querying feminism and transgressing whiteness in consolidated's The business of punishment / Sharon P. Holland. -- The accent of "Loss": cultural crossings as context in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents / David Mitchell. -- Historical multiculturalism: cultural complexity in the first Native American novel / Timothy B. Powell. -- Newsprint masks: the comic columns of Finley Peter Dunne, Alexander Posey, and Langston Hughes / John Lowe. -- Genealogy, genre, gender: Sui Sin Far's "Leaves from the mental portfolio of an Eurasian" / Nicole Tonkovich. -- Miscegen(r)ation or Mestiza discourse?: feminist and racial politics in Ramona and Iola Leroy? Diane Price Herndl. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98030475 |
| ISBN | 0813526213 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813526221 (pbk. : alk. paper) |