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Tolentino, Cynthia. "The Liberal, The Sociologist, and the Novelist: Narratives of Race and National Development in African American and Asian American Fiction of the 1940's," American Civilization, Brown University, May 2001.
This dissertation explores how questions of racial identity raised by American writers are closely embroiled with imperial narratives. In particular, I am interested in how race becomes central to American identity in narratives of American fiction and sociology that posit racism as an obstacle to national progress and United States global expansion. I argue that African American and Asian American writers in the 1940’s imagine solutions to racism and paths for social reform by challenging dominant teleologies of national development. The first half of my dissertation examines Richard Wright’s Native Son (1939) and Gunnar Myrdal’s black/white sociological study An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) in order to explore intersections of race, nationalism, and narratives of progress. The second part of my dissertation studies how two Asian American autobiographies, Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart (1943) and Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter (1945), challenge paradigmatic notions of American citizenship through narratives of intellectual awakening and enlightenment. By looking to how ethnic writers redefined models of race and national progress in the 1940’s, I argue that they also transformed the whole idea of what counted as “art” and “culture.”
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