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Nelson, Cary Nelson, Cary Parker, Robert D. Foote, Stephanie Barrett, James R. Tuszynska, Agnieszka 2013-05-28T19:20:08Z 2013-05-28T19:20:08Z 2015-05-28T10:02:31Z 2013-05 2013-05-28T19:20:08Z 2013-05 "On June 24, 1916, the New Republic published an editorial that began: ""The average Pole or Italian arriving at Ellis Island does not realize that he is the deadly foe of the native Negro . . . It is a silent conflict on a gigantic scale."" While this statement illustrates only a limited view of the cross-cultural encounters that it describes, it is based on historical facts that anchor my dissertation which explores the relationship between cultural constructions of space and literary visions of ethnicity and Americanness in fiction. My parallel readings of African American and immigrant novels show that the disciplinary boundaries which are often drawn between African American literature and white ethnic literatures can be imaginatively negotiated by examining the construction of space and place in black and white-ethnic writing. I argue that both black and immigrant literature of the time casts the relationship between ethnic/racial subjects and spaces as a challenge to the contemporary definition of American identity. My dissertation offers an approach to ethnic literatures that seeks parallels and dialogues among ethnic groups and their literary representations, while simultaneously acknowledging the historically nonnegotiable differences. I turn to geocriticism as my analytical tool, thus focusing on literary spatiality as the key to these cross-ethnic negotiations.  " Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-18T13:46:13Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertation--deposit.docx: 608030 bytes, checksum: 460ebea9f1af5f38612281960555e610 (MD5) Tuszynska_Agnieszka.pdf: 1827772 bytes, checksum: 7614c99309fb6508002acb537ae8c87d (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-28T19:20:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Agnieszka_Tuszynska.pdf: 1827772 bytes, checksum: 7614c99309fb6508002acb537ae8c87d (MD5) Dissertation--deposit.docx: 608030 bytes, checksum: 460ebea9f1af5f38612281960555e610 (MD5) license.txt: 4069 bytes, checksum: 93a80680e04c29b7fb6a19fc46173ecb (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:06-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-05-28 14:21:22 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-28T19:21:55Z Item is restricted until 2015-05-28T19:21:22Z Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 44769 on 2015-05-28T10:02:31Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44794 en Copyright 2013 Agnieszka Tuszynska multi-ethnic literature African American Literature white ethnic literature space place spatiality immigrant Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s text English 1499 English 0311 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:English -UIUC 10KS0311PHD