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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Stanciu, Cristina

Contributors dc:contributor

• Parker, Robert D.
• Hutner, Gordon
• Maxwell, William J.
• Capino, Jose B.

• Immigration
• Immigration Studies
• American Indian Studies
• Americanizatioin
• Assimilation
• Jewish American Literature
• Silent Film.

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2011 Cristina Stanciu

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24499

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/24499