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Fake Identity?: The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

Editat de Caroline Rosenthal, Stefanie Schäfer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2014
In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and “real,” impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic impersonation to racial passing, going native, and confidence tricks, when it is discovered, imposture incites fascination and scandal—yet it also showcases how identities are made. The essays in this book examine both real and fictional renditions of North American imposture, placing these narratives in historical context even as they shed light on larger currents such as identity as performance and the cultural value attributed to authenticity in Western societies. From the narrator of colonial travelogues to postmodernist author and narrator voices, and from the urban con game to trickster shamanism, fake identities are shown to be a negative lens through which the performance of self is revealed.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783593501017
ISBN-10: 3593501015
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 25 color plates
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: CAMPUS VERLAG
Colecția Campus Verlag
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Notă biografică

Caroline Rosenthal is professor of North American literature at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. She is the author, most recently, of New York and Toronto Novels After Postmodernism: Explorations of the Urban. Stefanie Schäfer is assistant professor of American studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. She is the author of “Just the Two of Us”: Self-Narration and Recognition in the Contemporary American Novel.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Caroline Rosenthal and Stefanie Schäfer
Faking It: Real Imposters and the Fabrication of Identities
The Message Becomes the Messenger: Jonathan Carver’s Travels between Imposture and Nationalist Self-Fashioning
Ramin Djahazi
‘The Wish to be a Red Indian’: The Canadian Dream of Grey Owl
Caroline Rosenthal
The Curious Case of Asa Carter and The Education of Little Tree
Laura Browder
The Imposter as Trickster as Innovator: A Re-Reading of Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan Cycle
Stefan Löchle
Making the Fake: Fake Identities in Literature, Film, and TV
“You Do an Awfully Good Impression of Yourself”: Authorial Imposters in Contemporary American Fiction
Jan D. Kucharzewski
Reading Fiction under False Assumptions? Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins and her Posthumous Passing for Black
Yulia Kozyrakis
Unwilling Imposters, Willing Victims: Passing in Two Nineteenth-Century Cuban Novels
Victor Goldgel
From Rinehartism to Capgras: Imposture and the American Dream
Christian Knirsch
Watch Me If You Can: The Return of the Imposter in Contemporary Film
Wieland Schwanebeck
The Con Man and the Close-Up: Imposture in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
Martin Holtz
“A Man is Whatever Room He’s In”: Identity, Home, and Nostalgia in AMC’s Mad Men
Stefanie Mueller
AlterNatives? – A Coda
Identifying Joyriding with the Trickster in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Maryann Henck
Pretending to Be an Imposter
Drew Hayden Taylor
Contributors
Index