Color Me White: Naturalism/Naturalization in American Literature

By Mita Banerjee

This book explores a remarkable parallelism in American literary and legal histories: the parallel between naturalism and naturalization. At the turn of the twentieth century, with the influx of unprecedented waves of immigration, the judiciary is at a loss to define who is "white" and who is not. In the courts of law, "whiteness" becomes a performance of cultural assimilability rather than a biological fact. It is this same cultural code of whiteness, this book argues, around which the literature of naturalism revolves by engaging in naturalization debate of its own.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825362205
• ISBN13: 9783825362201
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"