Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty: American mass culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale: consumer fantasy, American women, and social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and the I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy: negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood: narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”

Understanding David Henry Hwang / by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Butterfly : controversy, love, failure, and gold -- A musical Hwang : Flower drum song -- Wrapping up, beginning anew : Yellow face and Chinglish.…”
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Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury / by Floreani, Tracy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Cultural narratives and American identities -- The land of plenty : American popular culture and the literary immigrant in C.Y. Lee's The Flower Drum Song and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- What's for sale : consumer fantasy, American women, and narratives of social mobility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha and The I Love Lucy Show -- The celluloid fantasy : negotiating the ethnic male star image in William Saroyan's Rock Wagram -- Leaving the dark room in a lighter mood : narrating invisibility in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.…”
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Oriental, Black, and White: the formation of racial habits in american theater./ by Lee, Josephine

Table of Contents: “…Oriental, black, and white -- The racial refashioning of "Aladdin" -- The lesser roles of Ira Aldridge -- Blackface minstrelsy's Japanese turns -- The tricky servant in blackface and yellowface -- The Chinese laundry sketch -- "Maybe now and then a Chinaman": African American impersonators and Chinese specialties -- Divas and dancers: oriental femininity and African American performance -- Oriental frolics and racial uplift in the early African American musical -- Pleasure domes and journeys home: "In Dahomey," "Abyssinia," "The Children of the Sun," and "Shuffle Along" -- Fantasy islands: staging the Philippines, 1900-1914 -- Racial puzzles, chop suey, and Juanita Long Hall in "Flower Drum Song.".…”
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