{"product_id":"whiteness-and-american-literature-hardback-9781009522793","title":"Whiteness and American Literature (Hardback) 9781009522793","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhiteness and American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssays in this volume explore the pivotal roles that ideas about whiteness have played in US literature and culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJolene Hubbs (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009522793, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years – from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present – Whiteness and American Literature considers how a broad spectrum of novels, movies, short stories, television shows, poems, songs, and other works depict whiteness. The collection's twenty accessible and engaging chapters by renowned scholars analyze representations of whiteness in a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and aesthetic forms. Chapters also survey scholarly work at the crossroads of whiteness studies and disability studies, food studies, and other academic disciplines. Designed for scholars, students, and general readers, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the role whiteness plays in the US imagination.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Jolene Hubbs\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Whiteness and National Identity: 1. The imperial sounds of whiteness Harilaos Stecopoulos\u003cbr\u003e 2. Whiteness in late-nineteenth-century literature and law Mita Banerjee\u003cbr\u003e 3. Poor white people in the eugenic imagination Matt Wray\u003cbr\u003e 4. White nationalism Edward K. Chan\u003cbr\u003e 5. Whiteness and the US-Mexico border Lee Bebout\u003cbr\u003e 6. How Hollywood pictures whiteness Justin Gomer\u003cbr\u003e 7. Whiteface minstrels, stage Europeans, and twenty-first-century television dramas Marvin McAllister\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Whiteness in the American literary imagination: 8. Whiteness in nineteenth-century speculative writing Hannah Lauren Murray\u003cbr\u003e 9. Whiteness and the slave narrative John Ernest\u003cbr\u003e 10. Passing in modernist literature Masami Sugimori\u003cbr\u003e 11. Whiteness in African American writers' nonfictional works Veronica T. Watson\u003cbr\u003e 12. The historical novel of whiteness T. Austin Graham\u003cbr\u003e 13. The unbearable whiteness of contemporary US climate fiction Teresa A. Goddu\u003cbr\u003e 14. The twenty-first-century white life novel Stephanie Li\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Approaches to Whiteness: 15. Whiteness and food studies Catherine Keyser\u003cbr\u003e 16. Whiteness and queer studies Andrew Donnelly\u003cbr\u003e 17. Whiteness and legal studies Eden Osucha\u003cbr\u003e 18. Whiteness and working-class studies Timothy Helwig\u003cbr\u003e 19. Whiteness and feminism Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey\u003cbr\u003e 20. Whiteness and disability studies Stephen Knadler.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415631851800,"sku":"9781009522793","price":75.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009522793i.jpg?v=1784419945","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/whiteness-and-american-literature-hardback-9781009522793","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}