TY - BOOK ID - 77911596 TI - At home and abroad : historicizing twentieth-century whiteness in literature and performance PY - 2009 SN - 128309858X 9786613098580 1572337443 9781572337442 9781572336568 1572336560 PB - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, DB - UniCat KW - Race awareness in literature. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Whites in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Whites in literature KW - White people in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77911596 AB - Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical exigencies to whiten themselves.Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or per ER -