The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
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.
Immigration, Immigration Studies, American Indian Studies, Americanizatioin, Assimilation, Jewish American Literature, Silent Film.
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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