Table of Contents: Slippery characters :

Main Author:	Browder, Laura, 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.
Series:	Cultural studies of the United States
Subjects:	American prose literature > History and criticism. Autobiography. Literary forgeries and mystifications > History. Impostors and imposture in literature. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. Group identity in literature. Ethnic groups in literature. Impersonation in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Self in literature. American prose literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. Literary forgeries and mystifications. Imitatie. Etnisch bewustzijn.
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Table of Contents:

Slave narratives and the problem of authenticity
Staged ethnicities: laying the groundwork for ethnic impersonator autobiographies
Writing American: California novels of brown people and white nationhood
One hundred percent American: how a slave, a janitor, and a former Klansman escaped racial categories by becoming Indians
The immigrant's answer to Horatio Alger
Passing as poor: class imposture in Depression America
Postwar blackface: how middle-class white Americans became authentic through blackness
To pass is to survive: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town
Conclusion. Rewriting the ethnic autobiography.