The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1924

Download or read book The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1924 written by Cristina Stanciu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that despite their coercion into the 0́making of Americans0́+ 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 0́making Americans0́+ 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.