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Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing
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In this paper, MUKHERJEE and CAHAN this paper presented a model of self-hood and self-organization in the United States, which was used to model the 20th century CITIZENSHIP.Abstract:
CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Music Examples Preface Acknowledgements Preface MODELING CITIZENSHIP AND MODELED SELFHOOD Introduction PERPETUAL FOREIGNERS AND MODEL MINORITIES: NATURALIZING JEWISH AMERICANS AND ASIAN AMERICANS Chapter One "WHO MAY BE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES": CITIZENSHIP MODELS IN EDITH MAUDE EATON AND ABRAHAM CAHAN Chapter Two INTERRUPTED ALLEGIANCES: INDIVISIBILITY AND TRANSNATIONAL PLEDGES Chapter Three UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN CITIZENSHIPS: VISIONS AND REVISIONS OF THE 'PROMISED LAND' Chapter Four READING AND WRITING AMERICA: BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S JASMINE AND EVA HOFFMAN'S LOST IN TRANSLATION Chapter Five DEMARCATING THE NATION: NATURALIZING COLD WAR LEGACIES AND WAR ON TERROR POLICIES Epilogue "A SENSE OF LOSS AND ANOMIE": MODEL MINORITIES AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CITIZENSHIP Endnotesread more
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