The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
Stanciu, Cristina
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Description
Title
The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
Author(s)
Stanciu, Cristina
Issue Date
2011-05-25T14:27:05Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Parker, Robert D.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Parker, Robert D.
Committee Member(s)
Hutner, Gordon
Maxwell, William J.
Capino, Jose B.
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Immigration
Immigration Studies
American Indian Studies
Americanizatioin
Assimilation
Jewish American Literature
Silent Film.
Abstract
This dissertation argues that despite their coercion into the “making of Americans” discourses, New Immigrants and American Indians shared structurally connected roles in the drama of Americanization and assimilation. Recovering a genealogy of a combined cultural resistance to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety of literary genres and in silent film, this project shows how American Indian and Immigrant students of American democracy carved their own spaces in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American culture.
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