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Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America
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Overview
Roosevelt fully recognized the narrative component of American identity, and he called upon authors of diverse European backgrounds including Israel Zangwill, Jacob Riis, Elizabeth Stern, and Finley Peter Dunne to promote the nation in popular written form. With the swell and shift in immigration, he realized that a more encompassing national literature was needed to “express and guide the soul of the nation.” Rough Writing examines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in Roosevelt’s America and American literature.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780814782903 |
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Publisher: | New York University Press |
Publication date: | 11/01/2008 |
Series: | Nation of Nations , #6 |
Pages: | 255 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Mendel’s Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill and the Science of the Crucible
2. Two Flags to Love: Jacob Riis and the Transnational American at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
3. Making American Homes and America Home: Theodore Roosevelt and Elizabeth Stern in the Pages of the Ladies’ Home Journal
4. “Threatin’ Him as a Akel”: Finley Peter Dunne’s Ethnic Critique of “True Americanism”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
What People are Saying About This
Rough Writing quite brilliantly reveals not only Roosevelt's beliefs and views, but shows the different ways European immigrant writers rejected his enthusiastic insistence that they conform to his American narrative."-Journal of American Ethnic History,
"Rough Writing is much more than a fascinating account of the little-known relationship between an American president and the immigrant authors whose work he promoted in the service of a new national narrative. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, Rough Writing enables us to see a vital period in American literature through new eyes."
-Laura Browder,author of Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
"Cogently written and elegantly conceived." -The Journal of American History